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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, in a 8-0 ruling (Justice Gorsuch recused himself from the case), the Supreme Court held that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit erred in requiring federal regulators to ...

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 ...

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 ...