The NEPA "Mobius Loop"
In David Mandelbaum's monthly column in the Legal Intelligncer/Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Monique Mooney considers the problem of the "NEPA mobius loop." Environmental impact statements may take sufficiently long to prepare that when completed they are out of date. The column uses as an example the recent litigation over deepening of the Delaware River Main Channel.
Click the links to read the column, "Just Two Looks, That's All it Took: Cutting off the NEPA Mobius Loop", and the opinions related to the Delaware River Main Channel deepening: New Jersey Dept of Env. Protection v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 09-5591 (D.N.J. Jan 13, 2011) and Delaware Dept. of Nat. Res. & Env. Control et al. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, et al., No. 09-821-SLR (D. Del. Nov. 17, 2010).
