Democrats, Former CEQ Officials Back Environmentalists’ NEPA Rule Suit

Top Hill Democrats, former White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) officials and over four dozen law professors are backing environmentalists’ challenge to the Trump CEQ’s rewrite of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing rules, filing rare amicus briefs in a federal district court challenge to the rule. One environmentalist attorney involved in the case -- Wild Virginia, et al. v. CEQ, et al ., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia -- says it...