High Court Gets Letter About President’s Energy Order As It Decides Fracking Case

( January 28, 2025, 1:21 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates following oral arguments held in a case about whether the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires a federal agency to study the environmental consequences of projects beyond the proximate effects caused by the specific action over which that agency has regulatory authority in relation to the construction of a hydraulic fracturing railway project in Utah, the acting solicitor general has sent a letter to the justices stating that “because of federal respondent’s invocation of the [Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)] regulations, we wish to inform the Court that, on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order” titled “Unleashing American Energy,” which requires the chairman of the CEQ to move toward rescinding the CEQ’s NEPA regulations....

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