D.C. Circuit Embraces High Court’s NEPA Precedent, Curbing Challenges

The D.C. Circuit has “embraced” the Supreme Court’s precedent for how courts should grant “substantial deference” to agencies’ National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews in a ruling that industry lawyers say will stymie environmentalists’ efforts to file such suits in the favored venue under the landmark environmental law. In its first ruling interpreting the high court’s recent Seven County decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled earlier this month that...