The week of June 30, 2025, will go down in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) history as another one for the books — federal agencies have begun their efforts to overhaul their NEPA procedures ...

After nearly two decades of silence, the US Supreme Court on May 29, 2025, weighed in on an issue that has tremendous significance for permitting of complex infrastructure and other development ...

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 ...

The court explained that the National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to look at the environmental effects of the project itself—here, the construction of a railroad line—not the effects of ...

Trump has acted to cut through the NEPA regulation quagmire.

President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act on New Year’s Day in 1970. The law responded to demands for broad environmental analyses for major federal projects. Environmental ...

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 ...

A majority of the en banc court instead seeks to explain away the panel's conclusion as dicta. Will the Supreme Court agree? Last November, in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Administration, ...

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...