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Last Month at the Supreme Court
Grant Alerts
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Sadie Betting
With the close of the October Term 2025 (OT’25), the Supreme Court has started to assemble its growing list of cases it will hear in the next term (OT’26), including…
Environment, Land & Resources
One Year After Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County
Courts have applied Seven County to limit the scope of judicial review and give more deference to the government in NEPA cases. By Devin O’Connor, Janice Schneider, Stacey VanBelleghem, and…
Environmental and Energy Brief
New Guidance to Federal Agencies Adopting and Applying Categorical Exclusions to Environmental Review
By Caleb J. Bowers, Peter Whitfield, Brooklyn Hildebrandt
In the latest attempt to unify federal agencies’ independent application of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued new guidance to federal agencies for…
Washington Energy Report
FERC Proposes NEPA Categorical Exclusion for Certain Hydropower Terminations and Revocations
By Sahara Shrestha, Chuck Sensiba
On February 19, 2026, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would expand an existing National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) categorical exclusion to cover…
CEQA Developments
CEQ Issues NEPA Implementation Guidance to Federal Agencies
On September 29, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”), a federal agency within the Office of the President, issued a 10-page memorandum directed to federal department and agency heads,…
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U.S. Supreme Court Narrows Scope of Federal Agency Review Under NEPA
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, reversing a D.C. Circuit ruling that vacated federal approval…
Rural Spectrum Scanner
FCC Launches Rulemaking to Review NEPA Rules
The FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which launches a comprehensive review of the Commission’s National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) rules. Specifically, the NPRM will examine the…
The Energy Law Blog
NEPA Reform under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and Revised Agency Procedures
By Greg L. Johnson, Clare M. Bienvenu, Emily von Qualen, Colin North
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“the OBBBA”), which modifies the environmental review process under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”)…
The Energy Law Blog
Supreme Court Clarifies Scope of NEPA Reviews in Long-Awaited Decision
By Greg L. Johnson, Clare M. Bienvenu, Colin North
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s decision that vacated the Surface Transportation Board’s (“the Board”) environmental impact statement…
CEQA Chronicles
U.S. Supreme Court Limits Use of Environmental Review as a Roadblock
By Joshua B. Bailey, Andrew M. Skanchy
On May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado (2025) 605 U.S. ____, the Supreme Court gave instruction that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) “is…