August2016
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‘Official Action of the Agency Concerned’?
The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is becoming curioser and curioser, legally, as the Obama Administration has progressed. Not so much a “council” any longer as an “office” (in the loosest sense), CEQ is currently run by...August 9, 2016 325 1 -
A Guide that Doesn’t Guide?
The final Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) guidance on “the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change in reviews” was signed August 1. Although it omitted some of the more troubling points raised by...August 3, 2016 338 1 -
BREAKING: CEQ Releases Final GHG Guidance
The final amended guidance can be found here. We will be posting a full analysis later this week. For now it suffices to point out that the amended final has dropped all mention of a 25,000...August 2, 2016 306 0 -
The (In)significance of Greenhouse Gases in NEPA
In an opinion released late last month, the D.C. Circuit rejected several NEPA challenges brought against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s permissions at Dominion Cove Point. The climate change claims were the most important and FERC...August 1, 2016 260 0
