Appeals Court Dismisses Environmentalists’ Challenge To Trump NEPA Rule

A federal appellate court has dismissed as unripe a challenge environmentalists brought over sweeping rollbacks the Trump administration made to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing rule, stymieing their efforts to challenge the rule, which largely remains in effect as the Biden administration works on additional revisions. In a Dec. 22 ruling in Wild Virginia, et al. v. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), et al. , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit...