Environmentalists Eye House To Ease Infrastructure Bill’s NEPA Provisions

Environmentalists are planning to press their House allies to revise or remove a series of provisions in the bipartisan Senate infrastructure bill that overhaul the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), including measures that make permanent expiring fast-track procedures, create new categorical exclusions and curb their ability to sue. “As of now, yes, we are focused on the House and trying to get these provisions eliminated or improved,” one environmentalist tells Inside EPA Aug. 12. But environmentalists appear to face...