For those of you who still haven't heard, in a surprising 2-1 ruling, the D.C. Circuit held that the Council on Environmental Quality had no legal authority to issue its regulations governing federal implementation of NEPA....more
Does the National Environmental Policy Act require an agency to consider environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of actions within the agency's jurisdiction? That's the question that the U.S. Supreme Court has...more
Based on immediate reactions to the long-awaited final "Phase II" NEPA regulations, one might think that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) substantially altered long-standing federal environmental review practice....more