BLM To Use New NEPA Rules For ANWR Review Despite Prior DOJ Claims

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to use the White House’s streamlined National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules for its analysis of a controversial oil exploration project in the Arctic, despite a top Justice Department (DOJ) official earlier telling a court that agencies would not immediately use the new rules. A BLM spokesman tells Inside EPA that the analysis for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) seismic testing project “will be conducted under the new streamlined [Council...