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National Environmental Policy Act Final Rules Rulemaking Process

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Wireless Roundup (September 2025)

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‘Delete, Delete, Delete’ Deadline to Oppose Coming Soon: Following Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Carr’s Delete, Delete, Delete Public Notice, this Direct Final Rule (DFR) eliminates several of...more

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From Space to Spectrum: The FCC’s August 2025 Open Meeting Rundown

On Thursday, August 7, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or “Commission”) held its monthly Open Meeting, where it considered items spanning several industries, including broadcasting, satellite communications, and...more

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Democratic AGs Urge Federal Agencies to Halt Rollback of NEPA Regulations

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Eighteen Democratic AGs have submitted formal comment letters to several federal agencies urging them to withdraw recently issued final rules that rescind regulations implementing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)...more

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Federal Agencies Overhaul Longstanding NEPA Regulations

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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

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Extreme Makeover – NEPA Edition: Permitting Agencies Strip Their Environmental Review Regulations Down To The Studs

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In the past two weeks, six federal permitting agencies — the U.S. Departments of Interior (USDOI), Agriculture (USDA), Energy (DOE), Commerce (DoC), Defense (DoD), and Transportation (USDOT) — withdrew most of their National...more

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FERC Revises Regulations Implementing NEPA; Adopts Two Hydropower-Related Categorical Exclusions

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On July 3, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final rule revising its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to remove references to the recently rescinded...more

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Freeing Agencies from Conflicting National Environmental Policy Act Regulations

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On July 3, 2025, several federal agencies published Interim Final Rules or Final Rules freeing themselves of legally and statutorily conflicting regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in...more

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Another Big Week for NEPA: New Federal Procedures and a Big Beautiful Bill Benefit

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The week of June 30, 2025, will go down in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) history as another one for the books — federal agencies have begun their efforts to overhaul their NEPA procedures and Congress has...more

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Returning to the 1970s: Agency NEPA Regulations Replaced by Guidance

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A chain of events that started on Inauguration Day culminated with the June 30, 2025, withdrawal of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations that have, since the 1970s, structured decision-making processes at the...more

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CEQ Issues Memorandum on NEPA Implementation: Top Points

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The Trump Administration has begun operationalizing its regulatory strategy for projects requiring evaluation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In this alert, we discuss two key actions being taken and key...more

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Council on Environmental Quality Rescinds NEPA Regulations

Federal agencies are now responsible for their own National Environmental Policy Act procedures, creating uncertainty and opportunity for federal environmental reviews....more

Perkins Coie

CEQ Regulations Replaced by Guidance for a Year of Living in Uncertainty

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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) submitted to the Federal Register an interim final rule rescinding its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, which have been the foundation for...more

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New NEPA Rule Eases Permitting Process while Advancing Environmental Justice

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On the final day of April 2024, a week and a half after Earth Day, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized a rule intended to simplify and modernize the...more

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CEQ Finalizes Substantial Revisions to NEPA

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The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) today published its final rule to implement “Phase 2” of its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation amendments. This is CEQ’s final step to unwind many of...more

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NEPA Rules Rewrite: What's Next?

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This is the final in our 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) (“Final Rule”)....more

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