Climate Change Regulatory Initiatives Keep On Coming

Regulatory efforts designed to implement the President's Climate Action Plan, previously discussed in this blog, continue to emerge.  Earlier this month, the President issued an executive order directing federal agencies to support investments and other actions by states, local communities, and tribes that increase the nation's resilience to climate-change related impacts.  The order highlights promotion of "the dual goals of greater climate resilience and carbon sequestration, or other reductions to the sources of climate change" in its call to action.  Some observers are already seeing the potential for increased federal regulatory activism, for example on siting and construction requirements, based on climate change factors.