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 ...

NEPA is a procedural statute that governs the environmental review process for all major federal actions, and its requirements are often blamed for the length of time it takes for infrastructure ...

The week of June 30, 2025, will go down in National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) history as another one for the books — federal agencies have begun their efforts to overhaul their NEPA procedures ...

The case centers on an environmental analysis underpinning a Utah oil railway but is expected to affect infrastructure projects nationwide. The Supreme Court on Tuesday grilled backers of a proposed ...

The National Environmental Policy Act has not been immune to changes since President Richard Nixon signed it into law 55 years ago. Under the direction of President Donald Trump and Republicans in ...

Part of the climate and energy deal negotiated by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) would require the Interior Department to move forward with a lease sale that a federal ...

The court explained that the National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to look at the environmental effects of the project itself—here, the construction of a railroad line—not the effects of ...

In the 1993 movie "Jurassic Park," Dr. Ian Malcolm, a fictional math genius specializing in chaos theory, explains the "butterfly effect," which holds that tiny actions can lead to big outcomes. "A ...

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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 ...