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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

When the Montana Supreme Court sided with the youth plaintiffs in the Held v. State of Montana case, it marked an inflection ...

The groups' common goal was to challenge the government on legal ground, using the newly passed National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, a basic charter for the protection of the environment.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the Council on Environmental Quality today to strengthen the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act to better tackle ...

The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines that were scaled back by the Trump ...