NEPA reviews are a tool for informing the public about how major federal actions could affect the environment. May Lim / 500px via Getty Images In the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” Dr. Ian Malcolm, a ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of National Environmental Policy Act reviews, finding such analyses should be simply "a procedural cross-check, not a substantive roadblock" for ...

In the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Dr. Ian Malcolm, a fictional math genius specializing in chaos theory, explains the “butterfly effect,” which holds that tiny actions can lead to big outcomes. “A ...

At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because ...

Several justices indicated that a federal agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could reduce the scope of one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. The case deals with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), ...

The U.S. Supreme Court sharply narrowed the scope of a key environmental statute on Thursday. The decision makes it easier to win approval for highways, bridges, pipelines, wind farms and other ...

The Supreme Court may be about to sharply limit the reach of so-called environmental impact statements, which gauge potential harm of proposed developments and often cause projects to be blocked or ...

When it comes to the health of the planet, it’s not enough for pharmaceutical companies to simply clean up their own operations. “We can’t make changes happen at a large scale individually as ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) In the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” ...

WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court today severely limited the scope of the nation’s landmark environmental law in a case that could give new life to a Utah oil train project. For nearly 50 years the ...