Administration Trackers

ABA Administration Trackers

• ABA SEER SCOTUS Case Tracking
  The SCOTUS tracking list shows the cases set for argument before the Court, some pending cases, and some recent denials of cases in the environmental, energy, and resources fields.

• ABA SEER January 2025 Executive Order Tracking Archive
  Students from the University of Iowa College of Law reviewed the new administration's January 2025 executive orders and presidential actions, including announced memorandum, and providing summaries.

External Administration Trackers

Appointments

• Partnership for Public Service Political Appointee Tracker
  The Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition (the “Center”), founded in 2008, is a nonpartisan source of presidential transition information. The Center’s Presidential Transition Guide serves as a roadmap for transition planning, and its  Agency Transition Guide  helps career officials prepare critical information for incoming senior leaders. The Center assembled a library of past transition documents and offers a series of nonpartisan conferences and roundtable discussions for candidates and their transition teams. The website offers a blog, reports, a podcast and videos regarding the transition process. The Center launched the Political Appointee Tracker with The Washington Post in 2016. The Political Appointee Tracker does not have a paywall.
• The New York Times: Tracking Trump’s Cabinet Confirmations
  The New York Times is a daily newspaper based in New York City and reports on domestic, national, and international news. It is tracking President Trump's Cabinet confirmations. There is paywall to access the tracker.
• The Washington Post
  The Washington Post is a daily newspaper and news organization based in Washington D.C. that covers national politics and current events. It is tracking Trump’s Cabinet appointees. There is a paywall to access the tracker.

EPA Regional Administrators

• Region 1: Mark Sanborn

• Region 2: Mike Martucci

• Region 3: Amy Van Blarcom-Lackey

• Region 4: Kevin McOmber

• Region 5: Anne Vogel

• Region 6: Scott Mason IV

• Region 7: Jim Macy

• Region 8: Cyrus Western

• Region 9: Josh Cook

• Region 10: Emma Pokon

Executive Orders and Actions 

• The White House: Presidential Actions
  This is the official website of the White House. The site contains information about the current Cabinet of the United States and the Executive Office of the President of the United States. The website also provides information about the current issues the president and vice president address.

Legislation and Regulations

• Harvard Law School: regulatory tracker on clean energy deployment and environmental protection
  Harvard Law School’s tracker explains the regulatory steps to advance clean energy deployment and environmental protection, and provides an up-to-date and concise summary of both regulatory and litigation actions.
• GovTrack
  This site tracks the activities of the United States Congress to help Americans be the best advocates for the issues they care about and to create a more open and accountable government. This particular page tracks bills in the U.S. Congress related to the subject of environmental protection, as determined by the Library of Congress.
• The Brookings Center
  The Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets Regulatory Tracker provides background information and status updates on a curated selection of particularly important regulatory changes. The list can be filtered for different subjects, including environment and by the nature of the activity (e.g. rulemaking, executive order, guidance, etc.).
• Legiscan
  Legiscan provides updates on pending legislation and can be filtered by a variety of different inputs. Some functionality of the site requires payment.
• Environmental and Energy Study Institute
  Every week, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute provides a legislative tracker that lists the environmental and energy bills introduced and passed by Congress, as well as the relevant hearings held by committees.
• Ecological Society of America
  The Ecological Society of America racks legislation relevant to the ecological community. This legislative tracker can be sorted by sponsor, committee, status, and more.
• The Washington Post
  The Washington Post tracks environmental actions of the current administration. A subscription to The Washington Post is required to access.
• The George Washington University: Regulation Digest
  George Washington University’s Regulation Digest is a weekly compendium of regulatory policy, news, and analysis, including environmental issue

Litigation: Appellate and U.S. Supreme Court Cases 

• Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders
  Court Watch maintains a list of lawsuits.
• Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
  This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.
• Sabin Center for Climate Change Law: Climate Change Litigation Databases
  This website provides two databases on climate change-related cases.
• Plastics Litigation Tracker
  This is a resource from the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU Law and the Guarini Center that tracks cases addressing plastics across federal and state courts, including resolved and pending cases. The tracker is updated as cases are resolved and new cases are filed.
• The George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center
  The Center is a leading source for applied scholarship in regulatory issues. It maintains a Congressional Review Act Window Exploratory Dashboard.

State Trackers 

• National Caucus of Environmental Legislators: environmental policy library
  The National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, whose mission is to empower a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment, tracks legislation across the country. The tracker can be filtered by state, issue and status.
• National Conference of State Legislatures
  The National Conference of State Legislatures has a database that includes all introduced legislation on topics related to the environment and natural resources since January 2023 and is updated monthly.
• FastDemocracy
  This site tracks legislation in all states and can be searched by state and topic. There are free and paid versions.

• The Climate Center Bill Tracker (California)
  This website tracks bills that are in front of the California legislature addressing energy, climate justice, transportation, adaptation, resilience, sequestration, and other issues related to the climate crisis.

• California Climate & Energy Collaborative
  This searchable database tracks the progress of bills related to climate and energy, providing basic details about each bill.

• Florida Association of Counties
  This site tracks bill related to water and environmental sustainability.

• The Times Union (New York)
  This page identifies and tracks the progress of some of the most relevant bills passing through New York’s legislature on specific topics, including the environment.

• The Pennsylvania Environmental Council
  The Pennsylvania Environmental Council provides information, analysis, important dates, and status updates on pending state legislation and regulation that affects environmental and conservation efforts in Pennsylvania.
• State of Rhode Island General Assembly
  Environmental legislation moving through the General Assembly can be found on its website. A free account must be created in order to view and search the tracker.
• South Carolina Sierra Club Legislative Tracker
  The South Carolina chapter of the Sierra Club tracks legislation effecting the environment.
• South Dakota Legislative Research Council
  Bills in the South Dakota Legislature can be tracked by full text search.
• Tennessee General Assembly
  Legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly can be tracked by subject matter.
• Texas Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter
  The Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club tracks environmental legislation in Texas. 
• Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah
  The Healthy Environment Alliance (HEAL) of Utah tracks bills that can impact the environment.
• Vermont General Assembly
  Bills, Acts and Resolutions in Vermont can be searched by keyword and full text.
• Virginia State Legislative Information System
  Virginia bills can be tracked on the Virginia State Legislative Information System by subject matter.
• Washington State Legislature
  The Washington State Legislature provides a database of pending bills which can be searched by topic.
• West Virginia Legislature
  The status of bills in the West Virginia Legislature can be tracked by subject matter on its website. A free account must be created in order to do so.
• Wisconsin's Green Fire
  Green Fire, which promotes science-based practices, tracks environmental legislation in the state of Wisconsin.
• State of Wyoming
  The Wyoming Legislature has a database of pending legislation which can be searched by keyword.

Trackers on Substantive Topics

• Harvard Law School: Federal Environmental Justice Tracker
  The Environmental and Energy at the Harvard Law School tracks efforts by the federal government to engage people and communities affected by environmental, climate, and energy projects. It also tracks regulations, policies, and other federal actions that affect communities' exposure to pollution and environmental disasters.
• Harvard Law School: Clean Energy Regulatory Tracker
  The Environmental and Energy at the Harvard Law School tracks regulatory action to advance clean energy deployment and environmental protection, and provides an up-to-date and concise summary of both regulatory and litigation actions.
• The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School: U.S. Climate Regulation Database
  The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School database summarizes regulations and other actions by federal agencies that are relevant to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The database includes links to archived versions of proposed and final regulations as well as technical support documents, regulatory impact analyses, agency guidance, and other relevant resources.
• The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at the Columbia Law School: Climate Backtracker
  The Climate Backtracker identifies steps taken by the Trump Administration to scale back federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures.

Disclaimer: Non-ABA resources are listed as a service to members. Listing is not an endorsement by the American Bar Association. The opinions expressed in the resources listed on this page are those of the authors and they do not purport to reflect the opinions or policies of the American Bar Association or the Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources.