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📘 NEPA environmental review

A highway, dam, or pipeline—and a folder the public has never opened.

3
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~15 min
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. Procedure as powerExplain NEPA as a procedural law requiring disclosure and public involvement, not automatic project rejection.Major federal actions must document environmental consequences and choices, expanding who can see and challenge decisions.
  2. EIS and alternativesDescribe how alternatives analysis, public comment, and cumulative-effects review shape environmental impact statements.Strong records compare real options and respond to comments; cumulative impacts remain analytically contested.
  3. Reading NEPA fightsAnalyze NEPA disputes through the administrative record, reform debates, and local project examples.Courts review adequacy of process; political fights over speed continue to reshape how review works in practice.

Questions this course answers

What does NEPA primarily require?

NEPA is a procedural law requiring agencies to assess and disclose environmental effects.

Why do alternatives matter in an EIS?

Alternatives analysis is central to demonstrating a hard look at environmental consequences.

What is a careful claim about NEPA litigation?

Judicial review focuses on procedural adequacy in the administrative record.

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