Ensuring Robust Consideration of Climate Change Under NEPA

The document argues for the necessity of specific regulatory updates to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) framework to ensure federal agencies adequately assess how proposed actions contribute to climate change and how climate change impacts those actions.

• The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) completed a "Phase 1" rulemaking in April 2022 to restore NEPA regulation features that were removed in 2020, and intends to further revise regulations to support environmental justice, climate change mitigation, and resilience.
• The author suggests six regulatory priorities for the upcoming "Phase 2" rulemaking to ensure environmental reviews account for both the contribution of a proposed action to climate change and the negative impacts of climate change on the action and the environment.

APA

Sarinsky, D. A. A. M. (2022). Ensuring Robust Consideration of Climate Change Under NEPA. Institute for Policy Integrity. https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/ensuring-robust-consideration-of-climate-change-under-nepa

Chicago

Sarinsky, Dena Adler and Max. Ensuring Robust Consideration of Climate Change Under NEPA. Institute for Policy Integrity, 2022. https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/ensuring-robust-consideration-of-climate-change-under-nepa.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{sarinsky2022ensuring, author = {Sarinsky, Dena Adler and Max}, title = {{Ensuring Robust Consideration of Climate Change Under NEPA}}, institution = {Institute for Policy Integrity}, year = {2022}, month = apr, url = {https://policyintegrity.org/publications/detail/ensuring-robust-consideration-of-climate-change-under-nepa}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }