( July 31, 2025, 1:54 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A panel of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal as moot and vacated a lower court’s ruling that granted summary judgment to states that had challenged the Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on grounds that the regulations, known as the final rule, illegally sought to transform NEPA’s “carefully delineated procedures for environmental reviews” into “requirements to achieve broad and vague policy goals.”...