New Administration, New Priorities: Preparing For The Biden-Harris Administration's Key Environmental Focus Areas

Thompson Coburn's Environmental Group is closely following the incoming Biden-Harris Administration's announcements on its potential environmental priorities. Changes come with every new Administration; however, we anticipate relatively quick and more significant changes from the Biden Administration on environmental issues.

Given the regulatory roll-backs undertaken by the Trump Administration, many of which were controversial within EPA, we expect a renewed focus on the Agency itself, its mission and its staff. Some commentators have called this renewed focus a "Humpty Dumpty" approach—i.e., putting the agency "back together" again.

Regardless of one's political preferences and/or party affiliation, substantial environmental policy changes are coming. To help our clients prepare for these anticipated changes, we have prepared a short list of key areas that we believe the new Administration will focus its attention.