Council on Environmental Quality, vacated the Biden Administration’s 2024 Phase 2 NEPA rules in response to a lawsuit brought by twenty-one attorneys general. The Interim Rule expresses the Trump Administration’s agreement with those decisions, but invites public comments on the i...
Final NEPA rule restores rigorous review requirements : “[The new rule] restores the requirement that federal agencies evaluate all the relevant environmental impacts of the decisions they are making. This proposed change ensures that agencies will consider the ‘direct,’‘indirect,’ and ‘...
Fred Wagner, a top former Obama administration highway official and an expert on environmental reviews of infrastructure projects, says he expects the Trump administration to begin a review and rewrite of the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules, ...
Greater Roles for Tribes:CEQ makes a series of changes to its rules to further integrate Tribes into NEPA reviews by: (i) recognizing that Tribes may assume NEPA implementing responsibility under certain statutory authorities; (ii) requiring federal agencies to coordinate with affected Tribes in the...
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Others, however, represent a sharp departure from how agencies have implemented NEPA to date. It is those latter changes that are the focus of ongoing litigation challenging the new rules, ensuring that there will be a continued lack of certainty regarding the ultimate effect of CEQ's revisions...
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On January 10, the White House Council on Environmental Quality published significant revisions to regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the first such overhaul since adoption of the regulations in 1978. The proposed rules are comprehensive and wide-ranging, and have significant...
NEPA’s rules have not been comprehensively updated since 1978, around the same time the first personal computer was introduced. Since that time, NEPA reviews have been increasingly misused to gin up opposition, create bureaucratic roadblocks, and delay progress through litigation – adding unreasonable...