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July 14, 2026
The first half of 2026 saw the repeal of a key rule underlying federal climate regulation, the rollback of pollution limits on industrial chemicals like ethylene oxide, and a blanket exemption from species protections for Gulf oil drillers. Here, Law360 takes a look at the top five developments in environmental policy and regulation so far this year.
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July 14, 2026
The Pentagon has suspended the next phase of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, which is aimed at boosting cybersecurity standards across the defense industrial base while it reviews whether the program aligns with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's acquisition priorities.
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July 14, 2026
An environmental advocacy nonprofit has voluntarily dismissed its Clean Air Act lawsuit challenging Florida's use of diesel generators at an immigrant detention center in the Everglades, following Gov. Ron DeSantis' announcement last month of the facility's closure.
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July 14, 2026
Norfolk Southern said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling invited plaintiffs lawyers to wield state business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and the dispute urgently needs to be revisited to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.
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July 14, 2026
An advocacy group urged the D.C. Circuit Tuesday to compel the Federal Communications Commission to review Fox's character fitness as a broadcast licensee after its Philadelphia TV station aired Fox News' 2020 cable election coverage rather than let stand a staff level decision dismissing the group's petition.
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July 14, 2026
Conservation organizations sued the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Trump administration officials in California federal court Tuesday over their new definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, while two Native American tribes filed a similar suit in Washington federal court.
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July 14, 2026
A key high court win for the Federal Communications Commission and its plans to reshape the regulatory code, reorder the nation's telecom priorities, and take broadcasters to task for purported leftward leanings all headlined a busy first half of 2026 in telecom law.
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July 14, 2026
The Senate Finance Committee approved five nominees to serve as commissioners for the U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday.
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July 14, 2026
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order that blocks any new hyperscale data center projects from being built in her state by temporarily pausing environmental permits for those types of projects, the governor's office announced Tuesday.
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July 14, 2026
The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measure to fight rabies.
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July 14, 2026
The GEO Group Inc. has appealed to the Ninth Circuit a federal judge's order instructing the prison contractor to allow Washington state health officials access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Tacoma.
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July 14, 2026
The federal government has backed Premera Blue Cross in its bid at the Ninth Circuit to overturn a Washington federal court's judgment that held the insurance company's coverage policy for gender dysphoria surgery is discriminatory, arguing the decision is out of line with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 14, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.
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July 14, 2026
Allegheny Reproductive Health Center and other healthcare providers on Tuesday asked a Commonwealth Court judge to unfreeze money for Medicaid-funded abortions in Pennsylvania following the court's landmark ruling that the state's coverage exclusions for such abortions were unconstitutional.
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July 14, 2026
Connecticut is urging a federal court to toss the federal government's lawsuit challenging recently enacted state laws relating to law enforcement's use of face coverings and the investigation of cases involving deadly force, arguing the laws don't unconstitutionally hamper federal enforcement efforts.
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July 14, 2026
Holland & Knight LLP has hired the chief counsel for oversight at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, who worked on that committee under Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and who joins the firm's regulatory practice to fortify its bench with more than a decade of senior-level Capitol Hill experience.
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July 14, 2026
A Georgia federal magistrate judge has recommended that a jury hear a whistleblower suit against the city of East Point, finding that neither the former municipal court administrator nor the city should be handed an early win.
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July 14, 2026
Hawaii will take the authority away from counties to grant general excise tax exemptions to affordable housing projects and give it to the state under a bill signed by the governor.
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July 14, 2026
Dozens of broadcasters and emergency responders converged Tuesday on Capitol Hill to push for passage of a bill requiring automakers to continue manufacturing vehicles with AM radio capability.
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July 14, 2026
The U.S. government issued tariff refunds totaling more than $49.2 billion in June, dragging down customs duties to account for a monthly net loss of $25.5 billion in the federal accounts, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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July 14, 2026
California extended the sunset date for a tax credit program that allows qualifying businesses to claim income tax credits if the business hires workers and invests in the state under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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July 14, 2026
Three Venezuelan asylum-seekers who say they were lured by Florida officials onto a plane bound for Martha's Vineyard as a publicity stunt in 2022 argued that they should be allowed to sue in Massachusetts federal court anonymously because they are likely to face harassment if their names are exposed.
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July 14, 2026
A single zoning board member's objection to tree clearing cannot be the basis for a small Massachusetts town to deny a permit for a solar array, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
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July 14, 2026
The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.
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July 14, 2026
The IRS' nonprofit donor disclosure rule violates the First Amendment, a conservative youth group told a D.C. federal court, arguing that a now-convicted contractor's theft of donor records and those of high-ranking government officials demonstrates that the agency cannot safeguard sensitive information.