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 ...

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 ...

Judges asked the commission to clarify its stance on the social cost of carbon during a fight over the climate impact of an Alaska gas export terminal. Federal judges Wednesday pressed energy ...

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 will hear oral arguments in ‘Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado’—the first major NEPA dispute before the court in 20 years. In the 1993 movie Jurassic ...

The Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday that could redefine the scope of federal environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act. The eventual ruling in the case Seven County ...

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 ...