U.S. Code » Title 42 » Chapter CHAPTER 55— NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

42 U.S.C. § 4321

Congressional declaration of purpose

Read at: OLRCuscode.house.gov CornellLII GovInfogovinfo.gov JustiaTitle 42 CasesGoogle Scholar

The purposes of this chapter are: To declare a national policy which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and welfare of man; to enrich the understanding of the ecological systems and natural resources important to the Nation; and to establish a Council on Environmental Quality.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2,822 cases (219 in the last 5 years), 1970–2026 · leading case: Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill (1978) scotus · cites it 6× “852 , 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq. After finding TVA to be in violation of NEPA, the District Court enjoined the dam's completion pending the filing of an appropriate environmental impact statement.”
Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service (2008) ca9 · cites it 4× “, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ("NEPA"), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321 et seq., and the National Historic Preservation Act ("NHPA"), 16 U.”
Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assn. (1988) scotus · cites it 4× “852 , 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq., several other federal statutes, and governmental trust responsibilities to Indians living on the Hoopa Valley Reservation.”
United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) (1973) scotus · cites it 6× “852 , 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq., declares a congressional policy "which will encourage productive and enjoyable harmony between man and his environment; to promote efforts which will prevent or eliminate damage to the environment and biosphere and stimulate the health and…”
Kleppe v. Sierra Club (1976) scotus · cites it 3× “852 , 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq. —no matter how blatant—until it is too late for an adequate remedy to be formulated.”
Save Our Sound OBX, Inc. v. NC Dept of Transportation (2019) ca4 · cites it 2× “%20%C2%A7%204321"> 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq.”
Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms (2010) scotus · cites it 2× “…83 Stat. 852 , 42 U. S. C. §4321 et seq., by issuing its deregulation deci­ sion without first completing a detailed assessment of the environmental consequences of its proposed course of action. To remedy that violation, the District Court vacated”
Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation (1990) scotus · cites it 2× “852 , 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq., and § 10(e) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.”
Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen (2004) scotus · cites it 2× “852 (codified, as amended, at 42 U. S. C. §§4321 -4370f), and the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.”
Rattlesnake Coalition v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) ca9 · cites it 3× “The Coalition brought suit under the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. § 4321 , seeking in-junctive, declaratory, and other relief related to the preparation of Environmental Assessments (“EAs”) and Environmental Impact Statements (“EISs”) prior to…”
Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (1983) scotus · cites it 4× “852 , as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 4321 et seq. (1976 ed.”
Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council (1989) scotus · cites it 2× “…Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), 83 Stat. 852 , 42 U. S. C. §4321 et seq., must contain a complete mitigation plan and a “worst case analysis,” which we answered in Robertson, it presents the question whether information developed after the completion of the EI”
Show all 2,822 citing cases →
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.