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Federal Agencies Overhaul Longstanding NEPA Regulations

Key Takeaways - What happened: Over the last few weeks, individual federal agencies have issued interim final rules (IFRs) to largely rescind their existing NEPA regulations. Agencies have replaced those regulations with a...more

7/31/2025 / Biden Administration , Comment Period , Department of Energy (DOE) , Environmental Policies , Final Rules , Government Agencies , Interim Final Rules (IFR) , NEPA , Regulatory Reform , Rulemaking Process

NEPA: Back to the Drawing Board

Today the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule (IFR) that will soon remove all existing CEQ regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Other than the issuance of...more

2/26/2025 / Comment Period , Energy Sector , Environmental Policies , Executive Orders , Interim Final Rules (IFR) , NEPA , Regulatory Agenda , Regulatory Reform , Rulemaking Process , Trump Administration

FWS Takes a Mulligan on Greater Sage-Grouse Listing

Effectively restarting a contentious listing process, on April 12, 2019, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service reopened public comment on 2013 proposed rules listing the Bi-State distinct population segment of greater...more

4/16/2019 / Comment Period , Conservation , Critical Habitat , Endangered Species , Endangered Species Act (ESA) , US Fish and Wildlife Service

National Park Service Proposes Sweeping Changes to Oil and Gas Regulations

The National Park Service (“NPS”) today proposed a major overhaul of its regulations for non-federal oil and gas operations in National Park units. See 80 Fed. Reg. 65,572 (Oct. 26, 2015). Although the NPS press statement...more

10/27/2015 / Comment Period , National Park Service , Oil & Gas , Proposed Amendments , Proposed Regulation , Public Land

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