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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEPA reviews are a tool for informing the public about how major federal actions could affect the environment. May Lim / 500px via ...

The Supreme Court has narrowed the scope of environmental review under one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws. In an 8-0 ruling Thursday, the high court determined reviews conducted under the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor of Law, Director, Program on Law and Innovation, and Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt University In the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park,” Dr. Ian Malcolm, a ...

(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,” ...