For decades, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has governed how projects done by federal agencies must assess their impacts, and how the public is informed about these projects. But how does this legislation actually work in practice? And what changes are coming down the pike from the Trump administration? … “What does it look like to manage the Colorado River after 2026 when our current operating guidelines expire? And what will the impacts be to farmers, to municipalities, to wildlife habitat, to recreation or changing, potentially, how we allocate water and manage water in the Colorado River?” he (Chris Winter, the director of the Getches Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at CU Boulder’s School of Law) said. “So that whole entire process of how people and the public engage in that conversation and submit their views to the government on what the government should do, that whole process is governed by the National Environmental Policy Act.”