Is NEPA Still the Best Model for Environmental Protection? A Case ...

Despite its successes, many people view NEPA as a defective program, taking years to comply with and costing millions of dollars. ... Many of ...

NEPA-A Study of it's Effectiveness After 25 Years

For its accomplishments, DOE was awarded the Third Annual Federal Environmental Quality Award for the best agency NEPA program, given jointly ... In such cases, ...

What is the National Environmental Policy Act? | US EPA

NEPA requires federal agencies to assess the environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making decisions.

Council on Environmental Quality Substantially Rewrites NEPA ...

Though environmental justice (EJ) has been a focus of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for quite some time, this is the ...

The Benefits of NEPA: How Environmental Review Empowers ...

President Donald Trump's pledge to fast-track infrastructure projects threatens to roll back essential environmental review regulations that ...

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

Old-school environmentalists consider NEPA to be a foundational environmental law, even the “Magna Carta of environmental law.” Yet the ...

Never Eliminate Public Advice: NEPA Success Stories - NRDC

The NEPA commenting process provided the agencies with the tools to develop an alternative that best balances local impacts with environmental ...

Barriers and opportunities to incorporating environmental justice in ...

While environmental justice has been a recognized consideration within the NEPA process since the 1990s, it is by no means a streamlined process. Understanding ...

National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

NEPA was one of the first laws ever written that establishes the broad national framework for protecting our environment. Essentially, NEPA ensures that all ...

National Environmental Policy Act | FEMA.gov

NEPA establishes a national policy for the protection and maintenance of the environment by providing a process which all federal agencies ...

ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW & CASE STUDY: Reviewing NEPA's Past

During this 40-year period, NEPA has been hailed as a champion of American “environmental rights” and criticized as an obstacle to economic progress. In the ...

major cases interpreting - National Environmental Policy Act

(3) NEPA makes environmental protection a part of the mandate of every federal agency and department. Agencies are "not only permitted, but compelled, to ...

NEPA and Transportation Decisionmaking Questions and Answers ...

NEPA did not alter the missions of Federal agencies. Instead, it established a supplemental mandate for Federal agencies to examine the potential environmental ...

What is Environmental Law - And Why Does it Matter?

By addressing these and other environmental issues, environmental laws play a vital role in protecting human health and ensuring a safe, sustainable future for ...

Environmental Justice and the National Environmental Policy Act ...

Federal agencies must consider environmental justice in their activities under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Trump Weakens Major Conservation Law to Speed Construction ...

President Trump has used a regulatory reinterpretation to limit one of the country's bedrock environmental laws and speed permitting of ...

Measuring the NEPA Litigation Burden - Utah Law Digital Commons

litigation data, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) EIS ... We also observed a general downward trend in the number of NEPA cases as a percent of ...

Transportation For America NEPA 101 - Community Connectors

The two most important things to know about NEPA and other environmental laws are that not all projects get the same level of environmental review, and the ...

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations ...

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is finalizing its “Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule” to revise its regulations for ...

A Long and Winding Road: How the National Environmental Policy ...

Yet, astonishingly, a half century of NEPA implementation has transformed this seemingly-innocuous agency reporting duty into the most costly, ...