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On July 14, 2026, a coalition of conservation groups led by Earthjustice — including the Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Conservation Law Foundation, and others — filed suit in federal district court in...
On July 13, 2026, President Trump signed a pair of executive proclamations in the Oval Office reducing the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah, removing what he described as...
On July 10, 2026, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce announced they had finalized a rule rescinding the regulatory definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act. Since 1981, that...
On July 9, 2026, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed rule scaling back Biden-era standards limiting nitrogen oxide pollution from heavy-duty vehicles, which EPA called "unnecessary and unworkable." The...
The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved to roll back roughly three dozen federal firearms regulations, according to reporting the week of July 5, 2026. The proposals...
The Education Department released a regulatory agenda on July 3, 2026, setting out its rulemaking timeline for the coming year. The department said it plans to issue a proposed accreditation rule in July that would make...
KFF Health News reported in November and December 2025 that, starting in 2026, U.S. cancer registries receiving federal funding through the National Cancer Institute and CDC will be required to classify patients' sex...
In December 2025, Senate Republicans led by Mike Crapo and Bill Cassidy offered health savings accounts as a substitute for expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits, which were set to lapse December 31...
On November 19, 2025, the CDC replaced its longstanding webpage stating that vaccines do not cause autism with new language asserting that the claim is "not evidence-based" because, it said, studies have not fully ruled...
On October 31, 2025, Trump hosted a Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago, with guests including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and members of the Trump family dressed in 1920s attire, as federal judges were...