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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the extent to which—if at all—a federal agency must review the downstream environmental effects of a proposed infrastructure project when those impacts ...

This is the third in a series of six eAlerts on the Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule published in the Federal Register on May 1, 2024 (Final Rule) by the Council on Environmental ...

President Trump’s declaration of a national energy emergency invokes the National Emergencies Act, which allows the president to follow emergency procedures that have been spelled out in other federal ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 3, 2025) After a series of legal setbacks for the nation’s cornerstone law of environmental protection, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Beyond Pesticides has ...

Despite being one of the shorter laws on the federal books, the National Environmental Policy Act imposes tall workloads on federal decision-making. That has inspired the Trump administration to use a ...

Last week, the Trump administration gutted one of the nation’s bedrock public health, environmental, and climate protection laws — the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA has long been a target of ...

In a rare show of unity on May 29, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled 8-0 in favor of limiting the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The court recognized that despite many ...

The United State District Court for the Middle District of Florida (“District Court”) addressed in a January 22nd Order issues arising out of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and Clean ...