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New categorical exclusion to facilitate permitting of geothermal projects in the US
The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a new categorical exclusion that eases permitting for geothermal exploration ...
Forbes8mon
CEQ’s Empty Promises On Permit Streamlining
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation. The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently finalized its ...
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Courts could decide NEPA's future in pair of major cases
Federal courts could drastically reshape how agencies analyze the environmental impacts of their actions and what rules they ...
Opinion: The misleadingly named ‘Fix Our Forests Act’ would do anything but
Numerous expedited NEPA procedures exist, and Congress has promulgated dozens of “categorical exclusions” that exempt some ...
R Street Institute6dOpinion
Low-Energy Fridays: What’s the Link Between Judicial Review and Wildfires?
As wildfires continue to devastate large parts of Los Angeles County, a seemingly unrelated topic has come up: judicial ...
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Astronomers urge FCC to research impacts of space junk
The National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) requires an environmental assessment for any large government project, including those at FCC. However, there are many categorical exclusions that ...
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Court Issues Opinion Striking Down Approval of Gold Drilling in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada
The court held that “The Forest Service asks us to adopt a view of categorical exclusions that will swallow the protections of NEPA. We decline to do such violence to NEPA’s procedural safeguards.” As ...