Litigation: Environmentalists urge court to scrap CEQ’s NEPA rule

The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and other environmental groups are urging a federal district court to vacate the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) rule streamlining how federal agencies implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The groups lay out their arguments in a Nov. 19 motion for summary judgment in Wild Virginia, et al. v. CEQ, et al., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The suit is one of five targeting...