U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman Pushes for NEPA Reform to Expedite Energy Project Permitting | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman pushes for NEPA reform to expedite energy project permitting | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., renewed his call for permitting reform on Tuesday as the Arkansan and congressional colleagues discussed the nation's most prominent environmental review process for energy and public projects.

ARTBA’s Boals Offers NEPA Reform Ideas Before Congress

What happened: ARTBA Executive Committee Member Tony Boals, vice president with Tennessee-based Wright Brothers Construction, July 22 called on Congress to make three commonsense reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that could help speed up delivery of transportation improvement projects. Testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee, Boals called NEPA “a procedural tool meant to promote harmony between development a…