The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that agencies preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) under the guidance of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) need only to consider the environmental effects of the “project at hand” and not those that are “separate in time and place.”
The 8-0 decision handed down May 29 in Seven Cnty. Infrastructure Coal. v. Eagle County — of which Justice Gorsuch did not take part — further held that courts should “defer to an agency’s reasonable choices regarding the scope and …
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