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 ...

Logging and grazing on public land are expected to reap benefits from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has limited the scope of a proposed railroad’s environmental review. Beyond its implications for ...

Part of the climate and energy deal negotiated by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) would require the Interior Department to move forward with a lease sale that a federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...