The Trump administration wants to make it easier for infrastructure and energy projects to get off the ground. It sees ...

The National Environmental Policy Act has not been immune to changes since President Richard Nixon signed it into law 55 years ago. Under the direction of President Donald Trump and Republicans in ...

Congress enacted NEPA in 1970 to establish a national policy that federal decision-making be informed by consideration of potential environmental impacts. Since NEPA was enacted, the Council on ...

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 ...

But there is good news. The Trump administration, Congress, and the Supreme Court have all acted to cut through the mess known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

For years, energy companies, or any builders really, have been dramatically slowed down by NEPA. The process is notoriously slow and environmentalists weaponize the law to further block or slow down ...

For most of us, the phrase “government bureaucracy” calls to mind a mountain of paperwork. Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning one of the major sources of such paperwork: the National ...

Multiple federal agencies have rolled out new rules for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, as the Trump administration aims to expedite environmental reviews. However, ...

Logging and grazing on public land are expected to reap benefits from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has limited the scope of a proposed railroad’s environmental review. Beyond its implications for ...