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Alongside the report, we built a public site sharing the full NEPA litigation dataset—because sharing is caring. Explore the cases, rulings, and remedies here:

We call this THE PROCEDURAL HANGOVER. Read the report here: thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/… Grateful to my excellent coauthors Elizabeth McCarthy Lauren Teixeira Alex Smith for incredible work on this. Also very grateful to Arnold Ventures for supporting this project.

Very helpful new NEPA database 🥳

Speaking of putting one's money where one's mouth is - this is my favorite idea in our report for reducing frivolous tactical lawsuits. Taxpayers should not be footing the bill for unserious lawsuits brought by a handful of NGOs!

The biggest defenders of NEPA’s status quo? The same groups that rely on it in court — just 10 NGOs brought 35% of all NEPA lawsuits that led to a court opinion. They benefit from the system staying just the way it is.

No vacatur by default. Now we're cookin' 🧑‍🍳

The Westerman-Golden NEPA reform bill is first out of the gate for bipartisan permitting negotiations! Most notable: judicial review provisions are getting more sophisticated — which is a good sign for future negotiations. 🧵👇 x.com/ThomasHochman/…

Good 🧵 on limits of what one can learn from "win rates" in corpus of reported NEPA cases. ⤵️ FWIW, I think/hope the main payoff from Breakthrough's effort to compile NEPA cases will be facilitating future studies of what judges *say*. Study the texts, not the outcomes.

When we released our original analysis, Eric's criticism was that it only looked at appellate cases without looking at the full universe of litigation in district courts. Now that we've done that and found that most of the findings we identified at the appellate level also hold

If NEPA is to function as an effective tool for safeguarding the environment, policymakers and stakeholders alike must work to streamline the process so that it supports cleaner and more abundant energy and resources. Learn more: navigatingnepa.com

i can't even with this damn fish

This TVA project was held up in legal uncertainty for twenty-one months on a NEPA lawsuit. The lawsuit was weak enough to be dismissed on summary judgment. For their troubles, TVA got nearly two years of legal uncertainty for 500 MW of new peaking capacity.

conscious uncoupling < conscious decoupling

⁦James Coleman⁩ call yer office; ⁦Breakthrough⁩ strikes again thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…

Nick Schulz Breakthrough Really great resource- I was proud to help review it!

Another reason to ban emotional support animals.

In the Year of Our Lord 2025, the Sierra Club is still publishing articles opposing any NEPA reforms. These old-school environmental activist organizations have yet to accept the reality that being "pro-environment" requires supporting a much faster permitting process.

i'm laughing but it's also really annoying that people can just write extremely long articles full of false claims that it takes FOREVER to actually track down and refute so most of it just lives out there pretending to be useful

Do check our our new report from last week: a bottom-up analysis of US strategy for 15 energy minerals, from which we distill smart principles for running a US critical minerals reserve. If you've wanted a report offering both depth + big-picture insights, you'll like this one.

Environmental review is the most common way the feds delay new transit projects. Why? Litigation makes agencies risk averse, leading to never-ending review and re-review