Items Tagged with 'NEPA review'

North Carolina's $3.2B I-77 South plan shifts toward elevated express lanes, reframing the Charlotte corridor as a bridge-heavy megaproject entering federal environmental review after public debate.

The DOT's post-shutdown backlog is colliding with IIJA’s tightening obligation windows.

A federal permitting council is continuing reviews for FAST-41 projects favored by the president.

US appeals court majority said Florida Everglades facility wont have to dismantle while opponents' legal case continues, challenging lower court on whether it is subject to federal environmental protection rules 

The suit by Democratic attorneys general, which also names the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as defendants, is the latest in a series of legal battles over energy and climate change. 

The action favors fossil fuel projects and comes as a White House panel takes step to repeal environmental regulations under the federal NEPA law.

But justices declined to block business group and red state suits against tougher curbs on mercury pollutants from coal-fired power plants and methane emissions from oil and natural gas facilities. 

The White House releases a rule, effective on July 1, to ensure that climate change and environmental justice issues are considered during project NEPA reviews.