Kentucky Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Robert Rowlette, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting as “nonresponsive” the Corps’ argument that district engineers would assess required NEPA elements in greater detail at the verification stage
• agreeing with Ninth Circuit’s “adoption” of CEQ advisory guidance’s interpretation of a NEPA regulation
• judicial review is limited to ensuring an agency adequately considered and disclosed environmental impacts and the agency’s decision is not arbitrary and capricious
• courts “give ‘substantial deference’ to the regulations promulgated by the [CEQ], the federal agency established to fill in the gaps of NEPA’s regulatory scheme.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).