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Government

Nov. 27, 2010

New Guidance on Environmental Reviews

The White House has set new guidelines for a part of the National Environmental Policy Act that allows government agencies to avoid environmental reviews.


By Fiona Smith


Daily Journal Staff Writer


As part of its effort to modernize the 40-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, the White House Council on Environmental Quality has set new guidelines for a controversial part of the law that allows government agencies to avoid environmental reviews.


Environmental groups and others have mounted legal challenges to the use of so-called categorical exclusions, and the issue came into the spotligh...

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