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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that could speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines. The decision ...

A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects. The case, Seven County ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supreme Court justices heard arguments Tuesday in an environmental case involving a proposed railroad line in Utah for shipping ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously narrowed the scope of government-required environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects, overturning a lower-court block on a rail line in Utah that ...

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