category nepa 
Legal Planet
MAY 24, 2024
On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit decided a NEPA case that discusses two interesting issues. But what’s most striking isn’t what the court did discuss but what it didn’t mention : the fact that last year’s NEPA amendments speaks directly to one of those issues.
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. State government units. That seems ambiguous.
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Law and Environment
AUGUST 2, 2023
On July 28, 2023, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations governing how federal agencies review the environmental effects of major federal projects. Before those amendments, the regulations had remained largely unchanged since 1978.
Legal Planet
JUNE 15, 2023
Shortly after Biden signed the new NEPA rewrite as part of the debt ceiling law, I wrote a blog post about a major drafting glitch at the heart of the new provisions. After all, the government doesn’t have any control over them anyway. The drafters of NEPA 2.0 The drafters of NEPA 2.0 It’s also phrased more cogently.
Circle of Blue
APRIL 25, 2022
The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates packaged drinks, lowered the current standard that ranges between 0.8 The action, the first of two phases to address the National Environmental Policy Act, undoes changes to NEPA made by Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. By the Numbers. milligrams per liter. On the Radar. Water Week.
Law Columbia
MAY 10, 2023
Photo credit: Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management On March 13, 2023, the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) approved a major oil drilling operation on the North Slope of Alaska. The land covered by ConocoPhillips’ NPR-A leases falls into the second category. National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Statements by BLM suggest they do, however.
ESA
JUNE 14, 2021
The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.
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