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 ...

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, ...

Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday in an environmental case involving a proposed railroad line in Utah for shipping crude oil to refineries on the Gulf Coast. (Alex Brandon / Associated ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...