The case centers on an environmental analysis underpinning a Utah oil railway but is expected to affect infrastructure projects nationwide. The Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled backers of a proposed ...

The National Environmental Policy Act was ahead of its time when it passed in 1970, but experts say time has passed the review process by. The federal government is weighing a 21st-century makeover to ...

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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 ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County was an important step toward reorienting enforcement and implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act ...

Environmental advocates claim a federal judge wrongly allowed the U.S. Forest Service to exclude three Oregon logging projects totaling 29,000 acres from environmental analysis. The Oregon Wild and ...

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 ...