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“After a federal agency finishes a NEPA environmental document, the agency should not be able to withdraw or change it on its own unless a court orders the change.”
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“A project sponsor should have to agree before a lead agency gets more time for environmental review, and a sponsor that agrees should have fewer grounds to sue over delay unless the agency misses the new deadline or delays for unrelated reasons.”
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“People bringing NEPA lawsuits should face shorter filing deadlines, detailed public-comment prerequisites, limits to issues they raised earlier, restrictions on challenges to categorical exclusions and supplemental documents, and a need to challenge a final permit or approval rather than a review document by itself.”
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“Courts should overturn federal decisions for NEPA process mistakes only when the error was serious and likely changed the result, and courts should usually send decisions back for fast agency fixes while the approval remains active.”
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“The Council on Environmental Quality should gather and analyze energy information as part of its work tracking environmental quality and conditions.”
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“The NEPA exemptions for covered oil, gas, coal, and critical mineral approvals should apply even if another law would otherwise treat those approvals as major federal actions for NEPA review.”
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“Environmental reviews should focus on the impacts a project directly causes, and agencies should be able to avoid repeating review that has already been done well.”
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“Federal agencies should be able to approve or renew leases, easements, or rights-of-way for oil, gas, or coal exploration, development, or production on covered federal land without treating those approvals as major actions that trigger detailed NEPA review.”
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“Courts should have limited power to stop projects over NEPA mistakes, and lawsuits should be filed quickly by people directly affected.”
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“Federal agencies should have to consider environmental effects before making decisions, but NEPA should not force them to choose the most environmentally protective option or create separate environmental rights beyond that review process.”
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“Federal agencies should have to do new scientific or technical studies only when the information is essential and reasonable to get, and they should be able to use cutoff dates for research that appears after review begins.”
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“Once a permit or completed environmental review is issued, agencies should have limited power to pull it back unless there is a strong reason.”
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“Agencies should move environmental and permit reviews on a clear, shared schedule so projects do not get stuck in years of delay.”
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“Other agencies should comment only on issues they are legally responsible for, should not create a separate NEPA document after the lead agency decides none is needed, and public involvement should fit the project applicant's goals when that standard applies.”
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“Federal agencies should study environmental effects that are closely and directly caused by the immediate project, while leaving out uncertain, distant, later, or separate-project effects.”
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“NEPA court cases and appeals should move on faster schedules, while people and project sponsors should still be able to seek court review when agencies miss certain NEPA review deadlines.”
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“Federal agencies should be able to skip a separate NEPA document when another government review already covers the project, a broad programmatic review can still be used, a categorical exclusion applies, federal involvement is funding-only, or certain farm loans or already-reviewed permits are involved.”
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