On September 29, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued long-awaited guidance to formalize agencies’ individual efforts to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  After rescinding the CEQ regulations that shaped NEPA for 40+ years and bearing witness to various agencies’ independent efforts to issue their own NEPA rules, CEQ issued new guidance to more systematically guide the agencies’ efforts.  As CEQ notes, “NEPA implementation reform now has been called for, authorized, and directed by all three branches of government at the highest possible level: Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court.”  The guidance reflects direction from each.

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