Source: LEXOLOGY, 11/23/21


On Oct. 6, 2021, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced Phase 1 of a proposed two-phase rollback of the most significant substantive changes included in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rule-making finalized by former President Donald Trump’s administration in 2020. Those 2020 changes were the first overhaul of the NEPA regulations in over 40 years and were widely viewed as seeking to narrow and expedite the environmental review process under NEPA by, among other things...

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