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Center for Biological Diversity v. Carey
A district court denied environmental groups' motion to preliminarily enjoin a timber thinning project on BLM-managed lands in Montana. The groups argued the project violated NEPA because BLM failed to take a "hard look" at environmental and climate impacts, violated FLPMA because BLM failed to show...
Center for Biological Diversity v. United States Department of the Interior
The D.C. Circuit affirmed dismissal of environmental groups' challenge to BLM's approval of more than 4,000 applications for permits to drill oil and gas wells on public land in the Permian and Powder River Basins. The groups argued BLM violated NEPA by failing to adequately consider the wells' clim...
The Trump Administration's Self-Inflicted Problem: Why Repealing CEQ Regulations Will Delay Infrastructure and Energy Development
For the first time in nearly 50 years, following the federal government's recission of CEQ's NEPA implementing regulations on April 11, 2025, there are no governmentwide regulations in place to provide consistent direction to all federal agencies on how to implement the governmentwide procedural obligations established by NEPA. This Comment explains the costs of eliminating the common floor that the CEQ regulations had established for federal agencies conducting the environmental analyses required to comply with NEPA’s statutory mandate, and why those costs need not have been incurred.