Wilderness Watch v. Fran P. Mainella

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that a NEPA violation may be harmless when the relevant decision makers actually engaged in significant environmental analysis prior to the decision but failed to comply with the exact procedures mandated
• noting that courts “have only been willing to declare a NEPA violation harmless when the relevant decision makers actually engaged in significant environmental analysis prior to the decision but failed to comply with the exact procedures mandated”
• explaining that NEPA requires agencies to document environmental impacts to ensure that \environmental issues are considered by the agency and that important information is made available to the larger audience that may help to make the decision or will be affected by it\
• “NEPA imposes procedural requirements before decisions are made in order to ensure that those decisions take environmental consequences into account.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).