Law360, New York (December 4, 2015, 6:37 PM EST) -- Over the last several months, much critical attention has focused on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recently issued Clean Power Plan, which seeks reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, and the United Nations climate change negotiations in Paris where President Obama is seeking to play a leading role in structuring a new global agreement, in large part based on the CPP. But beyond those efforts, the administration has set forth a broad and ambitious schedule for 2016, the final year of the Obama administration, issuing other key regulations impacting the power generation and other energy-related sectors. These include other GHG-related rules on fuel, transportation, aviation, and oil and gas development, as well as revisions of major power sector air pollution rules on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court and D.C. Circuit. Some of these rules will also be very controversial and are likely to be challenged. Given all the work remaining on the CPP as well as these other rules, it remains to be seen whether the EPA can finish its work before a new administration enters the White House in January 2017....