sustainable development in U.S. law

• Dan Farber
• March 9, 2009

Rediscovering the Lost Promise of NEPA

NEPA — the National Environmental Policy Act — is the forgotten elderly relative of environmental law.  Its requirement of environmental impact statements is now frequently avoided by a clever workaround.  Rather than issuing an environmental impact statement, an agency adopts mitigation measures that are supposed to reduce the legal of environmental impacts below the trigger …

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