Alex Guillen

4 weeks ago | politico.com | Alex Guillen

The high court ruled the National Environmental Policy Act requires agencies to consider only the direct effects of a project rather than its broader impacts. Environmental reviews "need not address the effects of separate projects," Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.

1 month ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Alex Guillen

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/05/21/congress/epa-chief-zeldin-tangles-with-senate-democrats-at-budget-hearing-00362632Excerpt: ‘You’ve wasted your entire five minutes’: EPA chief, Democrats spar at hearing – Lee Zeldin’s exchanges with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and others were some of the most hostile of his four budget hearings in recent weeks.

1 month ago | politico.com | Alex Guillen

The panel’s other two members, Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both of whom were named to the bench by President Donald Trump in his first term, expressed more skepticism about allowing recipients to spend money while litigation plays out. “If the money were to go out, and then the government were to ultimately prevail, the government would be out of these billions of dollars,” Rao said while trying to determine what is in the public interest.

1 month ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Alex Guillen

2 months ago | politico.com | Alex Guillen

The government’s approach “is believed to have significant legal vulnerabilities,” veteran EPA career attorney Jim Payne wrote to 14 career staff and political appointees at the environmental agency, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department late on the night of March 9.