The White House proposal represents a dramatic retreat from the national goals of clean air and clean water enacted in ...

Trump hands off NEPA to agencies. By Hannah Northey | 02/20/2025 01:43 PM EST . The White House issued plans to ax decades worth of regulations for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act.

In May, Congress overturned a Biden administration rule that limited pollution of seven toxic chemicals, including lead and ...

Some groups said the order was “madness” after recent layoffs, but others said it could improve how the country responds to ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation announced Tuesday that they will update an environmental study on the management of federal dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that federal agencies conducting environmental reviews can take a more limited view of the impacts of transportation and energy infrastructure projects they are ...

Courts reviewing agency regulatory moves under the federal Administrative Procedures Act (APA) are generally hostile to abrupt changes that lack sufficient factual, scientific or legal justification.

Either way, there is a new interpretation in place for the law that is the centerpiece of the debate about permitting – the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, known as NEPA. Taking a ...