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White House Council on Environmental Quality Releases Draft NEPA Template Following CEQ’s Rescission of Longstanding Regulations

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Last week, several news outlets reported that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) circulated a draft template dated April 8, 2025 among federal agencies to assist in updating their procedures for...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Proposed NEPA Rules Address Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and Efficiency of Environmental Reviews

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...more

Nossaman LLP

NEPA Rules Rewrite: Revised NEPA Regulations Designed to Influence Litigation

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This is the sixth in a series of eAlerts on revisions to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2020, by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). The CEQ’s...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Trump Administration Proposes Revisions to Streamline Environmental Review Process under National Environmental Policy Act

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For many mining and infrastructure projects in the United States, a primary cause of permitting uncertainty, expense, and delay is compliance with the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Proposed Rule Revisions for NEPA

In another step in President Trump's ongoing efforts to relax environmental restrictions impacting economic development, on January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality published its proposed rulemaking to update...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Proposed NEPA Regulation Overhaul: Next Steps and What Matters for Public Agencies

Public Comments Due March 10 - The White House Council on Environmental Quality issued a proposal to significantly overhaul, for the first time in 40 years, the regulations for implementing the National Environmental...more

Snell & Wilmer

Trump Proposes Rules to Expedite Infrastructure Projects

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On January 9, 2020, in one of the more significant environmental proposals of the current administration, President Trump’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) proposed updates to its regulations for implementing the...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

White House Releases NEPA Proposal

On Jan. 9, following a White House press conference, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released proposed revisions to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations. The proposed rule seeks to rein in NEPA...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Shiny, Happy NEPA: How the Administration Plans to Make NEPA More User-Friendly

On January 10, 2020, the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a proposed rule that would substantially revise its regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental...more

Perkins Coie

White House Proposes Overhaul of NEPA Regulations

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Taking the next step in its efforts to streamline the environmental review process for projects under federal jurisdiction, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published proposed regulations on January 10...more

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ASTM Changes To The E1527

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As Scott Hitch noted in a previous post, a change to the federal rule regarding All Appropriate Inquiries (“AAI”) is currently on notice for public review and comment. The comment period ends on September 16. The proposed...more

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