The Trump administration late Wednesday tossed decades of environmental policy — laying the groundwork for an overhaul of how the federal government implements a bedrock environmental law. That law, ...

The court held that regulatory agencies implementing the Environmental Rights Amendment should stay in their own lanes and should defer to regulatory determinations of agencies charged with ...

Bipartisan lawmakers want to exempt semiconductor factories from a bedrock environmental law in the US. Bipartisan lawmakers want to exempt semiconductor factories from a bedrock environmental law in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled to limit the scope of environmental review required under a seminal 1970s environmental protection law. The move brought a proposed 88-mile railroad ...

The question for the justices was whether an agency had complied with a federal law by issuing a 3,600-page report on the impact of a proposed railway in Utah. By Adam Liptak Reporting from Washington ...

State officials are hoping to shrink the amount of time environmental review of housing projects takes from a year or more to just 30 days with a new set of regulations that Gov. Maura Healey called ...

The Trump administration began this week to radically alter how the National Environmental Policy Act is implemented across the federal government, alarming environmentalists. Passed in 1970 and often ...