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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In one of his first executive orders promoting fossil fuels, President Donald Trump directed the Council on Environmental Quality to rescind National Environmental Policy Act regulations, upending ...

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 ...

For about 55 years, the National Environmental Policy Act, commonly known as NEPA, has served as the bedrock of environmental protections and policy. Now, a probable rule change from the Trump ...