NEPA updates, Teaching and CEQ with Ted Boling

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On today’s episode, we talk with Ted Boling, Partner at Perkins Coie LLP about NEPA updates, Teaching and CEQ. Read his full bio below.
Thank you to this episode's sponsor Perkins Coie. Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, Perkins Coie provides a full array of legal advice including on environment, energy, and natural resources issues. This year, Chambers USA named Perkins Coie the Environment Law Firm of the Year, as well as ranking the practice Band 1, the highest possible ranking. Check them out at www.perkinscoie.com
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Guest Bio:
Edward (Ted) Boling served as the country’s top National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) attorney as an associate director at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ted served at CEQ, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in Democratic and Republican administrations. His experience includes deep involvement in federal infrastructure permitting issues and the first comprehensive revision of CEQ’s NEPA regulations in 40 years.
Drawing on over 30 years of high-level public service, Ted currently advises leaders on transportation and energy development projects, agencies that must hire outside counsel, and the environmental professionals that support them on the development of renewable energy, resource development, transportation, and infrastructure.
Ted’s extensive government experience at CEQ included the development of the National Ocean Policy, CEQ’s climate change guidance, and the regulatory response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He drafted NEPA guidance on mitigation and monitoring, cumulative impacts analysis, and the development categorical exclusions from detailed NEPA documentation. Ted advised the White House on the establishment of numerous national monuments and also assisted in briefing three U.S. Supreme Court cases.
At DOI, Ted handled matters involving energy development on the outer continental shelf, including offshore wind power development, and the fast track for solar and wind energy projects on public lands. He has provided legal and policy advice on environmental issues concerning the Federal Columbia River Power System and the California Central Valley Project. At DOJ, early in his career, Ted litigated significant cases involving NEPA, endangered species, marine mammals, wetland protections, and management of public lands.

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Chapters

1. NEPA updates, Teaching and CEQ with Ted Boling (00:00:00)

2. Nic & Laura talk about WOTUS (00:03:34)

3. Interview with Ted Boling starts (00:09:11)

4. Teaching (00:09:41)

5. NEPA updates (00:15:51)

6. CEQ (00:22:38)

7. Field Notes (00:37:00)