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 ...

Trump has acted to cut through the NEPA regulation quagmire.

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 ...

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

A process the Interior Department laid out to fast-track environmental reviews is rife with legal risks for both agencies and developers, experts say. President Donald Trump’s move to cut ...

For roughly half a century, a little-known body called the White House Council on Environmental Quality has been in charge of overseeing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, or ...

The Trump administration late Wednesday tossed decades of environmental policy — laying the groundwork for an overhaul of how the federal government implements a bedrock environmental law. That law, ...

Experts have long agreed that excessive litigation targeting the federal permitting process is a choke point for major infrastructure projects, and a new report from the Breakthrough Institute dives ...