Navigating The Transition: Key Environmental Enforcement Issues To Watch In The Biden Administration
By EsqSocial Corporation 28/01/21
While the texts of environmental laws do not change without an act of Congress, executive branch agencies that enforce those laws have a great deal of discretion in what kinds of violations to prioritize for investigation and enforcement and how aggressive to be in applying them to new or ambiguous fact patterns. Because the consequences of contesting a government enforcement case can be so onerous – financially, operationally, reputationally and otherwise – how the agencies exercise this...
By: Vinson & Elkins LLP