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Ketanji Brown Jackson on Energy & Oil |
In a later decision in the same case, Judge Jackson ruled in favor of the government, holding there was no obligation on federal agencies to review the pipeline project's environmental impact. Jackson described NEPA as a "means of informing agency officials about the environmental consequences of major actions that the federal government is poised to take," rather than "a mechanism for instituting federal evaluation and oversight of a private construction project that Congress has not seen fit to authorize the federal government to regulate."