The Biden administration is reworking Trump-era environmental review standards but says it wants to keep them in place for now because they aren’t causing any imminent harm to opponents.
Justice Department lawyers faced off with environmentalists Wednesday in arguments before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The court is weighing the legality of a 2020 rule from the White House Council on Environmental Quality that narrows federal analyses under the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Biden administration is navigating tricky territory on NEPA policy—agreeing with environmentalists that the Trump rule may be problematic but disagreeing that ...
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