Ellen M. Gilmer
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Air Travelers’ Real ID Deadline Is Being Pushed Back to 2025
Air travelers won’t need REAL ID-compliant forms of identification until 2025, the latest extension of security standards that were set to take effect next May. → Read More
Flyers’ Deadline for ‘Real ID’ Pushed to 2025 on State Delays
Air travelers won’t need REAL ID-compliant forms of identification until 2025, the latest extension of security standards that were set to take effect next May. → Read More
Two Russians Seek Refuge in Alaska After Fleeing Draft for Ukraine War
Two Russians are seeking refuge in the US after fleeing to Alaska to avoid President Vladimir Putin’s military conscription for the war in Ukraine. → Read More
Ukraine Aid Falters in Congress on Immigration, Abortion Fights
Congress is moving slowly to meet President Joe Biden’s request for Ukraine aid amid an ongoing fight over Covid relief money and immigration and a drive to vote on abortion-related legislation in the Senate next week. → Read More
Senators to Convene Bipartisan Immigration Meeting After Impasse
A bipartisan group of senators will meet Thursday to discuss options for passing immigration legislation this year. → Read More
More Ukrainians Reported at U.S. Borders Despite Hazy Legal Path
U.S. border officials are seeing a major spike in Ukrainians attempting to enter the U.S. via Mexico or Canada as pressure builds for the Biden administration to open new paths for those fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 5,000 encounters with Ukrainians last month, mostly along the southwestern border. The figure is almost five… → Read More
Per-Country Green Card Limits End in Bill Moving Through House
The House Judiciary Committee advanced legislation Wednesday to phase out per-country caps for employment-based green cards and lift annual caps for family-based green cards. → Read More
U.S. to Give Protected Status to Ukrainians, Halts Deportations
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to soon begin giving Temporary Protected Status to Ukrainians who are in the U.S., even as the Justice Department has halted the deportation of Ukrainian nationals who do not have green cards or other documentation. → Read More
Green Card Salvage Pitched in Homeland Security Funding Bill (1)
U.S. officials could salvage unused green cards from the past two years under a Senate spending bill released Monday. → Read More
Chronic Green Card Backlog Gains Lawmakers’ Bipartisan Attention
Immigrants in line for a green card for years or decades have new hope that chronic backlogs will finally be addressed as lawmakers from both parties and the Biden administration train their sights on the issue. → Read More
Immigration Alternatives Lined Up if Democrats’ ‘Plan B’ Fails
Democrats are weighing substitute immigration measures that don’t offer permanent residence in a sweeping social spending package if their latest preferred back-up plan falls short. → Read More
LAW: Could big opioid ruling bolster climate cases?
A landmark court decision ordering a pharmaceutical company yesterday to pay millions of dollars for contributing to the U.S. opioid epidemic is rooted in the same legal theory that underpins lawsuits targeting energy companies for their role in climate change. → Read More
LAW: DOJ environment team anchors Trump's push for border wall
Government lawyers tasked with carrying out President Trump's quest to build a wall across the U.S.-Mexico border inhabit an unlikely corner of the Justice Department, the Environment and Natural Resources Division. → Read More
LAW: States draw new battle lines on EPA carbon rule
A multistate challenge of the Trump administration's Clean Power Plan replacement this week highlighted key shifts in state views of federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. → Read More
SUPREME COURT: Former EPA officials back greens in Clean Water Act case
States, tribes, scientists and former EPA leaders lent their support last week to environmentalists engaged in a high-stakes Supreme Court battle over federal water protections. → Read More
CLEAN WATER ACT: EPA won't regulate pollution that moves through groundwater
EPA won't use the Clean Water Act to regulate any pollution that first moves through groundwater before it reaches surface waters, addressing questions about the scope of the law but further muddying an upcoming Supreme Court case on the same issue. → Read More
SUPREME COURT: Hovercraft ruling wades into Alaska's murky land, water regs
The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously in favor of an Alaska man at the center of a 12-year hovercraft battle. While some court watchers have dismissed the case as a novelty issue, the legal fight involves important debates on public lands, federalism and water rights that caught justices' attention on two separate occasions. → Read More
SUPREME COURT: Justices side with tribal firm over state fuel tax
A treaty more than 150 years old shields tribal businesses from Washington state's gas tax, the Supreme Court ruled today in a case with implications for other tribes and state laws. → Read More
NATIONAL PARKS: Court decision could doom already built Va. power line
A federal appeals court today rejected the Army Corps of Engineers' approval of a 17-mile transmission line across the James River, determining the corps did not properly analyze the full impacts of the power line that critics say degrades the site of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Va., and putting the fate of the project in doubt. → Read More
SUPREME COURT: Clean Water Act case could have sweeping impacts
The Supreme Court this morning agreed to hear a case involving whether the Clean Water Act covers pollution that moves through groundwater before reaching a federal waterway. Environmental groups, states, industry and conservatives are watching the case closely, as its outcome could clarify or narrow EPA's historical interpretation of the types of pollution discharges covered by the law. → Read More