https://avowhq.com/blog Regulatory-change explainers and federal data how-tos for environmental screening, from the team behind Avow. en-us Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:49:09 +0000 https://avowhq.com/blog/ej-screening-after-ejscreen https://avowhq.com/blog/ej-screening-after-ejscreen Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How-To EPA took EJScreen offline in 2025 and the federal environmental-justice executive orders were rescinded, but Title VI and several state laws still stand. Here is how to rebuild a defensible EJ screen from the authoritative source data the tool was built on. https://avowhq.com/blog/ceq-nepa-rescission-what-it-means https://avowhq.com/blog/ceq-nepa-rescission-what-it-means Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulatory Change The CEQ rescinded the government-wide NEPA regulations almost every document cited for decades. Here are the authorities a screen should cite instead, and why it matters. https://avowhq.com/blog/post-sackett-section-404-screening https://avowhq.com/blog/post-sackett-section-404-screening Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Regulatory Change Sackett v. EPA (2023) narrowed Section 404 wetland jurisdiction to a continuous surface connection. Here is what it changes for a desktop WOTUS screen of NWI and NHD data. https://avowhq.com/blog/federal-data-layers-every-screen-pulls https://avowhq.com/blog/federal-data-layers-every-screen-pulls Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How-To A desktop environmental screen pulls federal datasets like NWI, FEMA, IPaC, and SSURGO. Here is why each belongs in the record and the data hygiene that keeps the result defensible.