At the time of NEPA's enactment, climate change was not perceived as a serious environmental threat. More recently, scientific evidence has shown that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cause adverse ...

This is the fifth in a series of eAlerts on revisions to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations adopted by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and published in the Federal ...

NEPA is a procedural statute that governs the environmental review process for all major federal actions, and its requirements are often blamed for the length of time it takes for infrastructure ...

E arth Day is the annual occasion for thoughtful reflections on how far we’ve come in cleaning up our environment and what remains to be done to make it better. But as we think about improving our ...

The Trump administration Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) promulgated final rule with the most sweeping changes to the regulations since the CEQ initially promulgated them in 1978. Many of the ...

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 ...

The move is meant to quicken the National Environmental Policy Act and, in keeping with President Donald Trump’s larger goals, make government more efficient. But the move could leave federal agencies ...

For over half a century, the National Environmental Policy Act has dictated how new infrastructure projects, including pipelines, highways, and transmission lines, can receive federal permits critical ...