Multiple federal agencies have rolled out new rules for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, as the Trump administration aims to expedite environmental reviews. However, ...

For years, energy companies, or any builders really, have been dramatically slowed down by NEPA. The process is notoriously slow and environmentalists weaponize the law to further block or slow down ...

For most of us, the phrase “government bureaucracy” calls to mind a mountain of paperwork. Last week, the Supreme Court heard a case concerning one of the major sources of such paperwork: the National ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced on Monday that the Department of Transportation (USDOT) has released three updated sets of implementing procedures under the National ...

Logging and grazing on public land are expected to reap benefits from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that has limited the scope of a proposed railroad’s environmental review. Beyond its implications for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. For decades, the National Environmental Policy Act has ...

For over half a century, the National Environmental Policy Act has dictated how new infrastructure projects, including pipelines, highways, and transmission lines, can receive federal permits critical ...

Washington, DC—The White House Council on Environmental Quality released today its final phase II rule updating regulations that implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our country’s ...

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 established an innovative process to protect the environment and the natural world. NEPA requires all federal agencies to consider the ...