Litigation: Supreme Court declines to hear NEPA border wall case

The Supreme Court has rejected environmentalists’ request to review a case challenging the Trump administration’s waivers of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other environmental laws to build its border wall. The justices in an unsigned June 29 order declined to grant a petition for a writ of certiorari in Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), et al. v. Wolf, et al. , which challenged the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) broad waiver of NEPA and other environmental laws...