EPA
EPA built a tool that answers the question every applicant asks first: who do I call? EPA launches interactive Permitting Authority Map EPA released an interactive map on May 6 that identifies which regulatory body — EPA, state, local, or tribal — holds permitting authority across all of EPA's programs
ceq
CEQ's CE Works has its first live agency pilot. New Jersey is launching a public permitting dashboard. And geothermal just got eight bipartisan bills through committee. CE Works starts first pilot at BLM Moab CEQ's CE Works platform — the tool that digitizes categorical exclusion determinations — has
AI
April 27th, 2026 For the past two years, AI in permitting has been a collection of pilot projects and vendor demos. That changed this month. The Environmental Council of the States published data from 21 state environmental agencies on AI adoption. Route Fifty documented the shift from experimental to operational
ePermit Act
The ePermit Act landed in the Senate with eight co-sponsors. EPA is studying its own AI use in permitting decisions. And states are starting to mandate digital permitting by law. ePermit Act introduced in the Senate Eight senators — Curtis, Booker, McCormick, Kelly, Daines, Hickenlooper, Budd, and Padilla — introduced S.
permitting
CEQ is building a vendor expo for permitting technology. EPA now has 29 AI use cases. And for the first time in 20 years, AI has bumped cybersecurity off the top of state CIO priority lists. CEQ announces Permitting Innovators program and vendor expo CEQ's Permitting Innovation Center,
AI
April 13th, 2026 Two product launches in the past month show where enterprise AI in government is heading — and the approaches couldn't be more different. cBrain, a Danish govtech company, launched its F2 platform with agentic AI capabilities for government case management in the US market. F2 is
ceq
CEQ shipped actual software this week. That sentence alone is worth reading twice. CEQ launches CE Explorer and CE Works CEQ issued new categorical exclusion guidance on April 9, replacing the 2010 memo with a "CE-first" approach to NEPA reviews. More interesting than the guidance itself are
NEPA
Three federal agencies rewrote their NEPA rules in the same week. The post-CEQ era is arriving faster than most people expected. Three agencies, three approaches to the post-CEQ NEPA landscape With CEQ's NEPA implementing regulations rescinded since January, agencies are now writing their own rules. This
permitting
March 24, 2026 OpenAI and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory released DraftNEPABench on February 26 — a benchmark that tests how well AI coding agents perform on actual NEPA document drafting tasks. The results are useful, but the details matter more than the headline number. What they tested The benchmark includes 102
permitting
March 24, 2026 Welcome to the first edition of This Week in Permitting Tech. Every Monday, I round up who raised money, who shipped products, and which agencies made moves in the permitting technology space. PermitFlow raises $54M, now at $91M total PermitFlow closed its Series B, led by Accel