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

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 ...

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

In the short term, developers shouldn’t expect major changes to the NEPA process. When CEQ revoked the NEPA rules, it also released a memo directing agencies to continue to voluntarily follow ...

“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 ...

Since then, CEQ has been a central clearinghouse for ... The average time to complete the NEPA process is three years, and the average Environmental Impact Statement, one type of assessment ...

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

President Donald Trump rescinded major environmental regulations in a new federal rule effective April 11, changing ...

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 ...

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 ...