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Environmental Regulation One Year After Loper Bright: Judicial Review, Policy Shifts, NEPA Rulings

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, September 19, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE webinar will discuss this past year's rapid, evolving judicial review and interpretation of the environmental regulatory landscape following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decisions in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Corner Post Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Description

Following Loper Bright’s rejection of Chevron deference, courts now have the final say in interpreting environmental statutes. Corner Post extended the timeframe for challenging agency rules, allowing litigation even years after rule adoption, upon first harm to a regulated party.

In City & County of San Francisco, the Court limited EPA's ability to impose generic pollutant discharge bans without defined limits, emphasizing the recent Court penchant for statutory precision post-Loper Bright. In Seven County Infrastructure, the Court affirmed agencies' discretion under NEPA to exclude certain upstream and downstream impacts from review.

Loper Bright’s elimination of Chevron deference and Corner Post’s extension of challenge periods were the first steps in reshaping environmental litigation in a year of profound changes in statutory interpretation and regulatory reinterpretation.

Listen as our expert panel navigates Loper Bright, Corner Post, and more recent decisions, distilling what direction can be found, and offering strategies for advising clients. The panel will address heightened judicial scrutiny, new litigation potential, and adjusted regulatory compliance approaches.

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Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. Case evolution and timeline
    1. Loper Bright Enterprises
    2. Corner Post Inc.
    3. City & County of San Francisco
    4. Seven County Infrastructure
  3. Agency and administration policy shifts
  4. Legislative and regulatory impact
  5. Practice considerations

Benefits

The panel will address these and other important considerations:

  • Judicial rebalancing of agency power
  • Impact on EPA and other environmental agencies
  • Litigation and compliance strategy
  • Administrative policy shifts
  • Potentially vulnerable rules, and what's next?

Faculty

Keyes, Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn R. (Gwen) Keyes

Partner
DLA Piper

Ms. Keyes combines the trial skills learned from her 17-year career as a prosecutor with her in-depth knowledge of...  |  Read More

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