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Law Columbia
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
A new study , undertaken jointly by Environmental Defense Fund and Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, finds that federal agencies are not adequately considering climate change impacts in energy project reviews conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”).
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 22, 2023
For background, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to conduct detailed environmental analyses of major federal actions significantly affecting the environment. Major federal actions include those that are undertaken, funded, or authorized by a federal agency.
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Vermont Law
AUGUST 3, 2020
What is NEPA? NEPA) in 1970 to set the environmental policy for the United States. the quality of the human and natural environment triggers the procedural process of NEPA. NEPA process, but each follows the same general principles. NEPA process. NASA and NEPA. appropriate level of NEPA review.
Legal Planet
JUNE 26, 2023
One of the most important provisions, of the new NEPA law, § 107(f), allows the lead agency to delegate preparation of environmental reviews to project applicants. There are unsettled questions about when this provision applies and how it interfaces with other parts of NEPA. Coverage of agency regulations. That seems ambiguous.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Construction and operation of an interstate natural gas pipeline requires a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (“FERC”) under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. These permitting decisions may then subject transmission lines to NEPA, among other statutes. .
Law Columbia
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Ninth Circuit Upheld Forest Service Determination That Climate Change Documents Did Not Require Supplemental NEPA Review for Ski Area. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. 16-1-01001-5 (Wash. verdict June 7, 2017; sentencing June 23, 2017).
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