Efforts to block the Trump administration’s massive push to open immigrant detention facilities across the country will test ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...

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 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,” ...

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 ...