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The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of National Environmental Policy Act reviews, finding such analyses should be simply "a procedural cross-check, not a substantive roadblock" for ...

The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of environmental review under one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. In an 8-0 ruling Thursday, the high court determined reviews conducted under the ...

On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court held that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — which requires federal agencies to analyze the environmental impacts of projects that they carry out, fund, ...

The US Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s decision involving the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on Thursday, effectively narrowing the scope of the statute’s required environmental ...

The decision emphasizes the importance of judicial deference to agencies on NEPA and narrows the scope of environmental analyses. On May 29, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a decision (Decision) in ...

The question for the justices was whether an agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

April 22, 1970, was the birth of the modern environmental movement we call Earth Day. Yet few are aware that Rachel Carson was instrumental in setting the stage for the movement and the Day. In 1962, ...

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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 ...

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 ...