CEQ Directs All Agencies To Revoke NEPA Rules, Issue Guidance Instead

The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has told federal agencies to rescind their binding rules for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and replace them with nonbinding guidance, walking back its earlier request that agencies reissue rules consistent with Trump-era 2020 CEQ NEPA rules by next February. Several sources tell Inside EPA that the CEQ has issued such a directive, and one source says it was given during a phone call earlier this month where CEQ...