NEPA became the most widely exported American environmental law worldwide

Evidence

For these and other reasons, information disclosure not only marked the commencement of modern environmental law, but it also turned out to be among the most hardy of environmental law’s elements during the subsequent decades. NEPA has also likely been the nation’s most significant environmental law export, both domestic and international—at least thirty other nations have adopted their own versions of NEPA, as has virtually every state in the United States. — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 817

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: NEPA’s procedural disclosure mandate produced real environmental protection despite its critics — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 393; The term environmental law predates its formal 1969 coining — Richard J. Lazarus, The Making of Environmental Law, 1169