While the guidance aims to streamline and remove uncertainty from the NEPA process, it also highlights the challenges ahead for agencies that have relied on CEQ’s NEPA regulations without ...

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

NEPA's new rules may weaken environmental protections and reduce public involvement in federal projects, especially in the ...

“People still have to comply with NEPA.” CEQ will now likely have much less of a role in the review process but will still be providing guidance to other agencies on how to handle NEPA ...

For over 50 years, NEPA has required ... the permitting process for infrastructure projects nationwide, including ...

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

Pamela Wu, Kirstin Gibbs and Patrick Pennella of Morgan Lewis discuss recent actions by the Trump administration that signal review of natural gas infrastructure projects that will focus less on the ...

A judge with a peccadillo ended up tying Marin Audubon’s name to the demise of 50 years of environmental regulations.

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 ...

The Council on Environmental Quality was established in the same breadth of law ... Taking into consideration cumulative impacts would require the NEPA process to take into consideration the impacts ...