The Supreme Court made clear that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) does not require agencies to chase every speculative possibility, nor to paralyze progress under the weight of endless litigation brought by “anti-everything” groups. This ruling is a critical step toward restoring sanity to a system that has long turned environmental review into an instrument of obstruction. For decades, these groups have improperly wielded NEPA not as a tool for informed decision-making, but as a legal weapon to stall energy, mining, transportation, forest health, grazing, and even recreation projects vital to our national interest. By rejecting this misuse, the Court has affirmed that NEPA is nothing more than a modest procedural requirement that asks federal regulators to pause, think about what they are doing, and explain it. Mountain States Legal Foundation is proud to have represented the American Forest Resource Council and Western Energy Alliance as amici in this landmark case, an...