Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEPA reviews are a tool for informing the public about how major federal actions could affect the environment. May Lim / 500px via ...

Several justices indicated that a federal 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 ...

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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 may be about to sharply limit the reach of so-called environmental impact statements, which gauge potential harm of proposed developments and often cause projects to be blocked or ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources ranking member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., led an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the scope of the ...

Professor of Law, Director, Program on Law and Innovation, and Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University In the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” Dr. Ian Malcolm, 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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) In the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” ...