The Supreme Court’s NEPA Spring Clean Up: Seven County Infrastructure Coalition
On May 29, 2025, the United States Supreme Court unanimously pruned back what they deemed decades-long overgrowth of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Justice Kavanaugh, writing the majority opinion, asserted that NEPA, “a 1970 legislative acorn[,] has grown over the years into a judicial oak that has hindered infrastructure development ‘under the guise’ of just a little more process.” Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, 605 U.S. 1, 13 (2025). In Seven County, petitioners challenged the U.S…