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President Donald Trump signed a memorandum to speed up the permitting process for energy and infrastructure projects by ...
A new memorandum lays out changes the president says will boost the efficiency of environmental permit evaluations.
Today the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) took the most drastic action since its creation in 1970 by rescinding 50 ...
Historically, environmental assessments - damage, impact, and risk assessments - have embodied five fundamental principles of ...
“CEQ has said, ‘we're rescinding our nationwide regulations ... So now, federal agencies will have to come up with their own ...
For over 50 years, NEPA has required ... the permitting process for infrastructure projects nationwide, including ...
The Trump administration said the review, which was ordered by a court settlement, will be indefinitely paused.
A judge with a peccadillo ended up tying Marin Audubon’s name to the demise of 50 years of environmental regulations.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), Pub. L. No. 91-190, 83 Stat. 852 (1970), imposes ...
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 ...
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 ...