The Trump Administration has begun operationalizing its regulatory strategy for projects requiring evaluation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In this alert, we discuss two key ...

Historically, environmental assessments - damage, impact, and risk assessments - have embodied five fundamental principles of ...

NEPA regulates how federal agencies assess and report the environmental impacts of big projects, and provides for public ...

Simultaneously, CEQ sent a memo to all federal agencies with recommendations on implementing NEPA and primarily recommended ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), Pub. L. No. 91-190, 83 Stat. 852 (1970), imposes ...

"Now everyone knows ... and it is something we cannot unsee." Federal judge delivers stunning blow that could put Americans' ...

The president’s withdrawal of the White House’s power to write National Environmental Policy Act rules has created uncertainty for project developers. For the first time in decades, the White ...

The Trump Administration has made quick work dismantling aspects of the federal government it calls wasteful or inefficient.

The American Petroleum Institute said the White House’s rescission of its NEPA rules undercuts a lawsuit seeking more review of an offshore lease sale. The fossil fuel industry is testing ...

For roughly half a century, a little-known body called the White House Council on Environmental Quality has been in charge of overseeing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, or ...

President Donald Trump rescinded major environmental regulations in a new federal rule effective April 11, changing ...

Despite being one of the shorter laws on the federal books, the National Environmental Policy Act imposes tall workloads on federal decision-making. That has inspired the Trump administration to ...