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New U.S. Department of the Interior Review Procedures for Activities Related to Wind and Solar Energy

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On July 15, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) circulated an internal memorandum, requiring 68 different DOI actions related to wind and solar project development to be submitted to the DOI Office of the...more

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I-30 Widening - Reconstruction/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. District Court (E.D. Arkansas) Addresses Cross Motions for...

United States District Court Judge James M. Moody (“Court”) addressed in a March 31st Order an allegation by Plaintiffs (seven neighborhood associations) that the expansion of I-30 interstate violated the National...more

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Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction: Environmental Organizations File Judicial Challenge to U.S. Corps of Engineers Nationwide...

The Sierra Club and other environmental organizations filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the United States Army Corps...more

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Trump Administration Finalizes Updates to NEPA Regulations

The final NEPA rule substantially revises environmental review procedures and incorporates most of the perceived controversial changes proposed last January, including elimination of cumulative impact analysis, and shortening...more

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Court Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down

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On July 6, 2020, Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling ordering that the Dakota Access Pipeline (the Pipeline) be shut down and emptied by August 5, 2020. The decision...more

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Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Mississippi River Mainline Levees and Channel Improvement: U.S. Army Corps of...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) announced in a July 13th Federal Register notice its intent: . . . to prepare Supplement II (SEIS II) to the Final environmental Impact Statement, Mississippi River and...more

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Proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline/Louisiana: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Overturns Lower Court Order Halting Construction

The United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit (“5th Circuit”) overturned a United States District Court’s grant of a preliminary injunction preventing Bayou Bridge from constructing a pipeline in part through the...more

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Preliminary Injunction Issued Stalling Oil Pipeline Construction in Atchafalaya Basin

On February 27, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana granted a motion for a preliminary injunction filed by a group of environmental plaintiffs seeking to halt the construction of an oil pipeline in...more

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District Court Grants Partial Relief to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe But Denies Vacatur

On October 11, the U.S. States District Court for the District of Columbia issued its latest ruling on the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAP). The case is Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. US Army Corps of...more

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Court Declines to Vacate Environmental Assessment of Dakota Access Pipeline, Permitting Oil to Flow during Remand

On October 11, 2017, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia declined to vacate the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (“Corps”) Environmental Assessment (“EA”) of the Dakota Access Pipeline while the agency...more

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D.C. District Court Determines that Dakota Access Environmental Assessment was Inadequate

On June 14, 2017, the District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision in Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Court found that the Army Corps of Engineers (“the Corps”) had not...more

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Changed Dam Operations Not Subject to an Environmental Impact Statement Under NEPA

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On June 21, 2016, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit denied a petition for review of a decision of the Bonneville Power Administration to proceed with a change in the operation of the Albeni Falls Dam during the winter...more

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More Pipeline Development Projects: What America Needs

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National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) challenges to pipeline projects and other natural gas infrastructure have become a commonplace tool in recent years for environmental groups seeking to defeat or delay midstream...more

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