category nepa 
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 22, 2023
On November 16, 2023, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a proposed rule to expedite the environmental review process for certain renewable energy infrastructure projects through the use of categorical exclusions. Major federal actions include those that are undertaken, funded, or authorized by a federal agency.
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.
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Legal Planet
JUNE 8, 2023
Prior law authorized this kind of regulation but also required the agency to consider whether a particular fire involved exceptional circumstances, such as being next to a wilderness area. After the 2023 NEPA amendments, does the agency have to do some kind of environmental review before setting a fire next to a wilderness area?
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.
Legal Planet
JUNE 5, 2023
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was passed over fifty years. It also created the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), which issued guidelines of implementing NEPA in 1978. Lawyers will need to retool quickly because of NEPA itself has now been extensively revamped.
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. 2023 Budget Hearings. By the Numbers.
ESA
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Grijalva’s bill permanently reauthorizes the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers and increases the authorized funding level for the Climate Adaptation Science Centers from $97 million in FY 2023 to $145 million in FY $145 million in FY 2027. Supreme Court rejects Dakota Access NEPA battle – E&E News.
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