2025 Forecast for U.S. Federal and International Chemical Regulatory Policy
Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), its global consulting affiliate The Acta Group (Acta®), and consortia management affiliate B&C® Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM) are pleased to share with you our 2025 Forecast. For all the reasons you might imagine, our seasoned team was especially challenged this year in speculating on what to expect in 2025 regarding global industrial, agricultural, and biocidal chemical regulatory and policy initiatives. Given the European Parliamentary elections this past summer and the right wing shift they brought about, along with the new Trump Administration, change in chemical policy is expected on both sides of the Atlantic. The incoming Trump Administration and Republican congressional dominance portend significant policy changes most pronounced in regulatory and policy initiatives reversing the Biden-Harris climate program and environmental justice (EJ) agenda. How the incoming Administration’s focus on deregulation and “right-sizing” the federal bureaucracy may impact more nuanced chemical product law and regulation is unclear. Fears that the now-infamous “Project 2025” document will be an Administration blueprint and not a set of detailed stakeholder suggestions will influence reactions to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decisions both internally and externally.
We do our best in speculating on how things may evolve. At the least, the double whammy of Loper Bright, the blockbuster Supreme Court decision overturning the long-standing doctrine of “Chevron deference,” and a hardened resolve of the environmental non-governmental organization (eNGO) community to challenge judicially attempts to dismantle the Biden-Harris climate gains suggest a great deal of litigation is in our future.
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