NEPA is a key environmental law that provides local communities the ability to weigh in on federally regulated projects that impact their health and safety. It requires federal agencies to engage in a ...

The future of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, established in 1970, is uncertain in the Trump administration ...

On January 31 — in Marin Audubon Society et al. v. FAA et al. — the D.C. Circuit Court declined petitions for en banc review of a panel’s ...

The Biden-Harris administration has finalized significant reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a cornerstone of U.S. environmental regulation since its enactment in 1970.

President Donald Trump took steps Monday to cut back the White House’s National Environmental Policy Act rulemaking powers and to speed ... the power to craft rules for how agencies comply with NEPA.

NEPA is a law that governs federal agencies, telling them how and when to review the environmental impacts of federal projects. It is enforced, however, through private action: In ...

A judge ruled the White House Council on Environmental Quality lacked the authority to issue the 2024 regulations.

This past Monday, the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota issued its ruling in the closely watched case of ...

A federal judge in North Dakota threw out a Biden administration rule governing the U.S. environmental review process for ...

The Supreme Court should restore Congress's original intent and restore the proper regulations associated with the National ...

as two major National Environmental Policy Act cases make their way through the legal process. One case now before the Supreme Court could narrow the scope of reviews under NEPA, a law that ...

Last November, in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded ...