Executive Order
#14148 – Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (January 20, 2025)
Highlights
Revokes 120 Biden-era EOs.
Key Compliance/Risk Cue
Executive Order 14148 revokes a vast set of Biden-era policies, particularly those related to DEI, LGBTQ+ rights, climate, and immigration. It defines DEI as antithetical to merit and frames it as a form of ideological favoritism.
Litigation Snapshot
Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Trump
U.S. District Court, D. Alaska • No. 3:25-cv-00038 • Filed Feb 19 2025
Environmental groups (NAEC, Alaska Wilderness League, NRDC, etc.) challenge Executive Order 14148, which re-opens huge portions of the Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf for oil-and-gas leasing. No nationwide injunction as yet and less likely to be granted in light of Trump v. CASA.