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Updated: What a Freeze on New Regs Means for Environmental and Safety Rules in 2025

Posted on 2/4/2025 by Lion Technology Inc.


Updated 02/05/2025

Environmental Regulations Covered by New Executive Order 

Among the Executive Orders signed by President Trump to start his second term was an order to “freeze” ongoing regulatory actions and to postpone, where appropriate, the effective dates for published rules.

The order, Regulatory Freeze Pending Review, directs Federal agencies like US DOT, EPA, OSHA, and others to: 
 
  • Withdraw unpublished rules to be reviewed and approved by a department or agency head appointed by the President since taking office. 
  • Consider postponing for 60 days (or more, as appropriate) the effective date for any rules that were published but have not yet taken effect.
  • Consider re-opening the comment period on postponed rules. 

Environmental Actions Withdrawn Or Delayed

Update: February 5, 2025 

US EPA delayed the effective date for two Final Rules until March 21, 2025:  

  • Technical Corrections: Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, the Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule, and the 2018 Definition of Solid Waste Rule (Details)
  • Implementing Statutory Authority of Certain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Beginning with Reporting Year 2025 (Details

Update: February 4, 2025

US EPA extended the comment period for three recently proposed rules:


Update: January 28, 2025

US EPA delayed the effective date for four Final Rules until March 21, 2025:

  • Trichloroethylene (TCE), Final Rule Under TSCA (Details)
  • Revisions to Guidelines on Air Quality Models (Details)
  • State Air Plan Approval for Illinois (Details)
  • State Air Plan Revisions for California (Details)
EPA will publish the rule delaying these four effective dates to the Federal Register on January 28, 2025. In addition, a forthcoming proposed rule to create new water pollution limits for manufacturers of PFAS was reportedly withdrawn from consideration by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on January 21.

Updated: What a Freeze on New Regs Means for Environmental and Safety Rules in 2025

A new Executive Order puts a temporary "freeze" on new and pending regulations.

EPA Final Rules with Upcoming Effective Dates 

In the rule delaying the four rules above, EPA states that the agency "may identify additional regulations in subsequent notices." Other recently published EPA Final Rules with upcoming effective dates that could be delayed a minimum of 60 days include
 
Lion Members: The Monthly Regulatory Summary available to you is especially valuable at times like this! View the latest summary here to see all significant final rules, proposed rules, agency notices, public outreach, and other rulemaking activity published in December 2024. 

Check out this Member Bulletin for insights about how a "regulatory freeze" will impact ongoing EH&S concerns like OSHA's heat exposure rule, regulation of PFAS, chemical risk evaluations under TSCA, and more.

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