Justices Let Stand Ruling Allowing Court Review Of Certain NEPA Findings

The Supreme Court has declined a request from industry groups and oil-producing states to review a lower court ruling that certain National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) findings are final, judicially reviewable actions, leaving in place a decision that the petitioners charge will open the door to a “flood of challenges at each stage” of the NEPA process. The high court June 5 denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in American Petroleum Institute, (API) et al. v. Environmental...