The president issued Exec. Order No. 13840, Ocean Policy to Advance the Economic, Security, and Environmental Interests of the United States; the order revokes Exec. Order No. 13547 of July 19, 2010, Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes, and puts more emphasis on national security concerns.

The June issue of ELR's News & Analysis features an article that looks at Superstorm Sandy five years later and how law can be both a catalyst and obstacle to long-term recovery following catastrophic disasters. Another article takes a "hard look" at Trump's stance on the social cost of carbon, and a third focuses on the management of floodplain buyouts at the local level. The June issue also examines China’s system of procuratorate public interest litigation. And a fifth piece questions the United States' use of minimum size restrictions for fisheries.