b'THE OFFICIAL NFBA MAGAZINECHEVRON DECISION MAY LEAD TO ENVIROMENTAL SUITS AND PERMIT DELAYSTHE LOPER BRIGHT AND CORNER POST RULINGS COULD OPEN THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT, OSHAS HEAT STANDARDAND OTHER REGULATIONS TO CHALLENGES, LEGAL LEGALLY SPEAKINGEXPERTS SAY.ByJulie StruppSenior Editor of Construction DiveT he Supreme Courts June Chevron rulingfederal agencies enforcing them will likely have a seismic impact on laws thathave overstepped their bounds, legal pertain to the construction industry, legalexperts told Construction Dive. The experts say. National Environmental Policy Act, In their Loper Bright Enterprises v. RaimondoEndangered Species Act and OSHAs decision this summer, the justices struck downheat standard are among those likely the 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resourcesto be challenged.Defense Councilpreviously one of the mostIn the immediate future, were going to see an consequential rulings on federal administrativeincrease in litigation on this basis, and were already law. The decision rolled back the power of federalseeing a lot of complaints being amended to include agencies to interpret the laws they administer,Loper Bright in cases that are before the courts and ruled instead that courts should interpretnow, said attorney Prianka Sharma, vice president ambiguities. and counsel for regulatory affairs for the American Now, with the fall of what was known as theRoad & Transportation Builders Association.Chevron deference doctrine, a slew of regulationsIn theory, the decision should result in less are ripe for challenges on the grounds that thevacillation in regulations when presidential 8 / FRAME BUILDER - VOL5 6'