The Filing Cabinet

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that allows the agencies to share Renewable Fuel Standard data and analysis, including proprietary business information. Sharing this information, the agreement says, will allow the CFTC to assist the EPA with investigations into potential fraud and market abuses related to biofuel credits under the Clean Air Act.

During a recent speech, President Donald J. Trump’s pick to head the EPA announced a "back to basics" agenda and plans to undo  rules promulgated during the previous administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency is putting a freeze on 2016 rules intended to reduce methane emissions and the release of other pollutants by the oil and gas industry.

The EPA is easing up demands placed upon states regarding ozone and smog pollution. Meanwhile, environmental groups are suing over an unrelated retreat from existing rules targeting methane emissions.

Satisfying an Executive Order issued by President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers will rescind the Obama Administration's "Waters of the U.S." rule.

A federal court has ordered the EPA to resume its enforcement of a methane reduction rule imposed during the Obama Administration. Halting the requirements requires a full rulemaking process, it said.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt appears in a new video that urges the nation’s cattlemen to support and comment on a proposal to repeal the controversial Waters of the United States rule.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) is asking the FBI to launch an investigation into "potential violations of federal law" by Carl Icahn, a billionaire investor and former adviser to President Trump on regulatory matters. Icahn is accused of conflicts of interest connected to that advisory role.

Leading 19 states and municipalities, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has submitted a 30-page comment letter to the Environmental Protection Agency citing due process violations arisinge from Administrator Scott Pruitt’s involvement in an effort to repeal the Clean Power Plan.

A coalition of attorneys general has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration  and the EPA for “ignoring its legal duty to control emissions of methane, an extremely potent greenhouse gas, from existing oil and gas operations.”

A coalition of states, representing approximately 43 percent of the new-car sales market nationally, is suing the EPA to preserve auto emissions standards.