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President Biden signed the Fiscal Responsibility Act, which paired spending cuts and caps with suspending the debt limit.

Republicans, Democrats, and the White House made progress on permitting reform with significant reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act as part of the legislation to increase the debt ceiling. The FRA includes numerous changes to NEPA. Here are several key changes.

The first amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in decades might materially narrow NEPA reviews and streamline federal permitting of oil, gas, and renewable energy projects.

The first amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in decades might materially streamline federal permitting of oil, gas, and renewable energy projects, leasing on federal lands...

National Environmental Policy Act NEPA, NEPA knowns as Builder Act, requires the federal government agencies inform the public and consider alternatives to proposed federal actions and the reasonably foreseeable environmental impacts of those actions before making decisions.

On June 3, 2023, President Biden signed into law the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The law increased the debt ceiling and, among other things, amended the National Environmental Policy Act...

An increased borrowing limit for the U.S. was not the only change brought about by the recently enacted Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)...

President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., announced a debt limit deal Saturday, with a vote expected Wednesday in the House of Representatives.

Heritage Foundation experts scrutinized the text of the 99-page bill.

The Mountain Valley pipeline would receive federal approval under the budget deal between McCarthy and Biden, a win for Dem Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia