CEQ Issues Unusual Opposition To Amicus Filings In NEPA Rule Suit

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is filing an unusual objection to amicus briefs backing challengers to its sweeping National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing rule, urging a district court not to accept the briefs from former CEQ officials, Democratic lawmakers and law professors. Their motions to the court to accept the amicus filings “should be denied because they are untimely, raise issues not pursued by Plaintiffs in their motion for summary judgment, and violate principles of...