Prof. James Coleman Quoted by ABC News About Supreme Court Ruling on Scope of Certain Environmental Impact Statements

Professor James Coleman was quoted by ABC News about the U.S. Supreme Court putting new limits on the scope of federally mandated environmental impact statements for major transportation and energy projects, clearing the way for a proposed rail line linking Utah and Colorado and the possibility for approvals of similar construction programs nationwide. The decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County was 8-0. Prof. Coleman said of the ruling, “The Supreme Court has issued an important corrective to the current judicial approach to the National Environmental Policy Act, demanding more deference from courts for the agencies performing judicial review and explaining why it is inappropriate to demand agencies to consider the upstream and downstream effects of energy transport projects.”