But there are organizations that bring cases as a public good and they pay for the litigation. On the left, ACLU. For libertarians, the Institute for Justice (IJ). IJ identifies laws or regulations they want to dispute and then find a sympathetic plaintiff to represent. Someone like you would probably do a lot of good by convincing IJ to find some NEPA cases to bring.
But there are organizations that bring cases as a public good and they pay for the litigation. On the left, ACLU. For libertarians, the Institute for Justice (IJ). IJ identifies laws or regulations they want to dispute and then find a sympathetic plaintiff to represent. Someone like you would probably do a lot of good by convincing IJ to find some NEPA cases to bring.
The party of record is a federal agency, though. I’m not sure IJ can defend them.
Individuals don’t have standing to sue when NEPA holds up their projects for years?
The NEPA lawsuit is brought by an environmental org against an agency. I could be wrong but I don’t think a different party can appeal the decision.
This list the existing NEPA lawsuits before the supreme court and while some of them have government agencies as the plaintiff many don’t.
Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms is one example.
Good catch. Looks like in the district court Geertson sued federal officials as per usual but Monsanto filed a motion to intervene and join the case.