Introduction

After months of anticipation, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs issued the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda on September 4. In the Unified Agenda, federal agencies outline their active, long-term, and completed regulatory actions. Agencies publicly disclose the topics under consideration for rulemaking activity in the Unified Agenda, offering a first public look behind the scenes at the agencies’ near-term and long-term priorities. As the first Unified Agenda of the second Trump administration, this Agenda features hundreds of new items that align with the president’s deregulatory program.

What’s in the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda?

The Spring 2025 Unified Agenda contains 3,816 agency actions. Of these, 243 are “economically significant”—meaning the actions are likely to have an annual economic effect of $100 million or more (Table 1). The Agenda categorizes agency actions into stages: “active” actions are rules in the pre-rule, proposed rule, or final rule stage that the agency anticipates acting on within the next 12 months. “Long-term” actions are items that the agency anticipates action beyond the next 12 months. “Completed” actions are finalized or withdrawn rules. By stage, this Unified Agenda lists 2,099 active actions, 807 long-term actions, and 910 completed actions.

While IHMM follows the agenda of several agencies, our primary focus is on the following three:

Environmental Protection Agency Issues its Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda – Read more here
Department of Transportation Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory  Agenda – Read more here
Department of Labor Issues its Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda – Read more here