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Husch Blackwell LLP

DOE’s New NEPA Guidance: Streamlines Review and More Opportunity

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Recent changes to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) procedures for complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), geared at streamlining the environmental review process, may offer some benefits to...more

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BOEM Announces Draft Regional Environmental Analysis of Offshore Wind Energy in New York Bight

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) published the Notice of Availability on January 12, 2024, for the draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) on offshore wind energy development activities in the New...more

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Offshore Wind Development Blows Closer to Reality in California

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Offshore wind development in federal waters off the California coast is rapidly moving closer to reality. Although construction and operation remains several years away, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the...more

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Norwegian court revokes wind power licences to protect the cultural practice of minorities

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On 11 October 2021, Norway's highest court declared a construction licence granted in respect of wind turbines to be invalid, because it breached the right of minorities to practice their culture as set out in art. 27 of the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

How To Straighten the Long and Winding Road that We Call NEPA

So CEQ has proposed to amend the NEPA regulations in order to eliminate some of the changes made by the Trump Administration in 2020. Important changes include: • explicit consideration of indirect impacts • renewed...more

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