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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Update on the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program Project

We previously commented on the status of the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program project. Per the IBR Program's June 2025 Fact Sheet, the project is still in the design phase with the expectation that it will publish a...more

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law +

CEQ Takes Action to Restore Pre-2020 NEPA Regulations

This post is part of an ongoing series covering the Biden administration’s efforts pursuant to Executive Order 13990 to repeal and replace regulations adopted during the Trump administration. ...more

Morgan Lewis - Up & Atom

NRC to Consider Streamlining NEPA Process with Additional Categorical Exclusions

The NRC recently published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking public comments on possible amendments to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations on categorical exclusions. Comments are due...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

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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

Pierce Atwood LLP

NEPA Overhaul? CEQ Proposes Significant Changes to Federal Environmental Review

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The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a division of the Executive Office of the President, today published in the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would make significant changes to its regulations...more

Stoel Rives LLP

National Environmental Policy Act Alert: CEQ Proposes Rulemaking to Facilitate Infrastructure Development by Radically Overhauling...

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On January 9, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) proposed major changes to National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) regulations originally issued more than four decades ago. The proposed rulemaking aims to...more

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Will NEPA’s Golden Anniversary be Tarnished by the Trump Administration’s efforts to overhaul the long-established regulations?

As the 50th Anniversary of the National Environmental Policy Act approaches, we may be on the verge of one of the most significant regulatory revisions in the statute’s history. NEPA advocates—and all those who believe it is...more

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National Environmental Policy Act Procedures: U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Two Interim Policies

The United States Department of Transportation (“DOT”) published an August 23rd Federal Register Notice announcing the availability of two interim policies for public comment. See 84 Fed. Reg. 44351. ...more

Downey Brand LLP

For the First Time in Forty Years, White House Council on Environmental Quality Poised to Propose Major Overhaul of its...

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On June 20, 2018, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an advanced notice of proposed federal rulemaking, soliciting public comments on whether and how CEQ should update its National Environmental...more

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