Federal Government Finalizes Significant Changes to NEPA ...

CEQ Finalizes Sweeping NEPA Changes - Steptoe

On July 15, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a final rule significantly revising the procedures federal agencies must ...

Commonsense Reforms to Federal Reviews Key to Economic ...

The regulations finalized by CEQ today further build on the successes already accomplished by the Department since streamlining current ...

Proposed NEPA Rule Changes - NRDC

In passing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) over 50 years ago, Congress made it the “continuing responsibility of the Federal ...

CEQ Proposes Comprehensive Changes to NEPA Regulations

The National Environmental Policy Act, 42 USC § 4321 et seq. (NEPA), celebrated its 50th birthday and, days later, on January 9, 2020, ...

CEQ NEPA Rulemaking - National Environmental Policy Act

NEPA charges CEQ with overseeing and guiding NEPA implementation across the Federal Government, which includes developing procedures.

Update to the Regulations Implementing the Procedural Provisions ...

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issues this final rule to update its regulations for Federal agencies to implement the National ...

Biden Administration Proposes Significant Changes to Regulations ...

The energy transition and increased public focus on environmental issues have strained the existing regulatory regime including the National ...

CEQ Completes NEPA Overhaul with Final Phase 2 Regulations

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released the final version of its Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule, otherwise known as the Phase 2 ...

CEQ Restores the Status Quo with Phase 1 Changes to NEPA ...

The 2020 Final Rule required federal agencies to revise their NEPA procedures if those procedures were “inconsistent” with the CEQ regulations. This change ...

Biden Administration Proposes “Phase 2” Revisions to NEPA ...

On July 31, 2023, the Council on Environmental Quality published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for its second phase of revisions to the ...

Examining Phase 2 Final Rule's Impacts on National Environmental ...

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently issued its “Phase 2” final rule, which finalized revisions to its regulations for implementing ...

CEQ's Proposed NEPA Phase 2 Rule Turns Procedure Into ...

Federal agencies are required to conduct assessments under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) before taking “major federal ...

Much more than you ever wanted to know about NEPA - The CGO

Permitting reform has been in the news this fall, and an important element of permitting is the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

CEQ Finalizes NEPA Phase Two Rulemaking - Climate Change

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) finalized its Phase Two revisions to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing ...

Congress Streamlines NEPA as Part of Debt Ceiling Package

The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) amended the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),1 in an effort to streamline permitting of ...

Biden-Harris Administration finalizes strategy to guide balanced ...

Public Lands Rule will help conserve wildlife habitat, restore places impacted by wildfire and drought, expand outdoor recreation, and guide thoughtful ...

Indian Affairs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Guidebook

Are significant effects expected? Generally, if a Federal action is expected to have significant effects on the human environment, an environmental impact ...

Earthjustice Applauds Restored NEPA Regulations as Fundamental ...

The final rule requires federal agencies to consider climate and environmental justice impacts in their NEPA analyses and mandates meaningful, ...

Louisiana and Texas Challenge CEQ's Finalized NEPA Amendments

On May 21, 2024, a group of 20 states, including Louisiana and Texas, filed an action in North Dakota district court challenging the Council ...

Sea Change? Proposed Updates to NEPA Regulations Seek to ...

On January 10, 2020, the Trump Administration announced a proposed rulemaking that will be the first comprehensive overhaul to the White ...