House Natural Resources Panel Pitches NEPA Curbs In Reconciliation Plan

The House Natural Resources Committee is slated to mark up legislation that would significantly curb the embattled National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as part of its portion of Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, including by allowing developers to pay a fee for speedier environmental analysis that would not be subject to judicial review. The proposal represents another attack on NEPA from congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, with GOP lawmakers arguing it would fit within the Senate’s reconciliation rules that allow...