Executive Branch Transition
Agricultural Law Weekly Review—week ending January 29, 2021
Executive Branch Transition: White House Executive Order Directs Review of Previous Administration Actions, Cancels and Revokes Others
On January 25, 2021, President Biden published in the Federal Register Executive Order (EO) 13990, titled “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis.” 86 FR 7037 Among other things, the EO directs agency heads to immediately review all agency actions taken between January 20, 2017 and January 20, 2021 that “are or may be inconsistent with, or present obstacles to” the administration’s voluminous policies articulated in the EO. The agency heads shall consider suspending, revising […]
