The week of June 30, 2025, will go down in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) history as another one for the books — federal agencies have begun their efforts to overhaul their NEPA procedures ...

Over the last half century, federal courts have interpreted the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to require federal agencies to study an ever-growing range of indirect effects and impacts when ...

For most of us, the phrase “government bureaucracy” calls to mind a mountain of paperwork. Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning one of the major sources of such paperwork: the National ...

Trump has acted to cut through the NEPA regulation quagmire.

President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act on New Year’s Day in 1970. The law responded to demands for broad environmental analyses for major federal projects. Environmental ...

The court explained that the National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to look at the environmental effects of the project itself—here, the construction of a railroad line—not the effects of ...

The National Environmental Policy Act has not been immune to changes since President Richard Nixon signed it into law 55 years ago. Under the direction of President Donald Trump and Republicans in ...

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A majority of the en banc court instead seeks to explain away the panel's conclusion as dicta. Will the Supreme Court agree? Last November, in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration, ...