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Department of Transportation (DOT) Environmental Assessments

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I-30 Widening - Reconstruction/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. District Court (E.D. Arkansas) Addresses Cross Motions for...

United States District Court Judge James M. Moody (“Court”) addressed in a March 31st Order an allegation by Plaintiffs (seven neighborhood associations) that the expansion of I-30 interstate violated the National...more

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Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. Department of Transportation Proposed...

The United States Department of Transportation (“DOT”) published a November 23rd Federal Register Notice of a proposed rulemaking which is described as updating and codifying: . . . its internal order establishing the...more

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Department of Transportation Proposes New NEPA Procedures

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The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed comprehensive changes to update its procedures under the National Environmental Policy Act in response to the Council on Environmental Quality’s July 16, 2020, overhaul of...more

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I-30 Widening – Reconstruction/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. District Court (E.D. Arkansas) Addresses Request For...

United States District Judge James M. Moody (“Court”) addressed in a September 3rd Order a July 10th Motion filed by Plaintiffs seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction (“Motion”) to prohibit commencement of: . . ....more

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NEPA Rules Rewrite: Categorical Exclusions and Environmental Assessments

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This is the third in a series of eAlerts on revisions to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations published in the Federal Register on July 16, 2020 by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) (“Final Rule”)....more

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I-630 Widening/National Environmental Policy Act: U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Arkansas) Complaint Filed Addressing...

Five individuals filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas on July 18th addressing what they describe as construction involving the widening of Interstate Highway 630 (“I-630...more

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California District Court Finds Biological Assessments Inconsistent And Enjoins Caltrans' Project

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In Souza v. California Department of Transportation, No. 13-cv-04407 (N.D. Cal. May 2, 2014), plaintiffs sought to enjoin a project proposed by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to modify U.S. Route 199...more

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9th Circ. Simplifies Enviro Process For Transit Projects

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In a decision of national importance for transit and highway projects, on Feb. 18, 2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected environmental challenges to the 20-mile Honolulu Rail Transit Project. On the same day, the...more

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