Environmentalists Fear Supreme Court May Adopt ‘Radical’ NEPA Restriction

The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral argument Dec. 10 in a closely watched case that environmentalists fear could result in a “radical restriction” in the scope of environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), while upending years of accepted legal doctrine under the law. A worst-case scenario, Sam Sankar of Earthjustice told a Dec. 4 press briefing on the case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, CO, et al. , would be “a...