Quote-Unquote: Environmental issues in flux, from NEPA’s reach to GNP stay

What they’re saying. Arguing, before the Supreme Court, the limits of NEPA’s reach : “[The National Environmental Policy Act] requires agencies to study only environmental effects proximately caused by the proposed agency action. NEPA does not require agencies to study remote environmental effects, non-environmental effects, risks, or factors outside the agency’s control. Nor does an agency have to consider every effect that may (or may not) flow from conduct or events that a proposed project may (or may not) spur,...