NEPA Courses Using AI Tools
Find the course for your NEPA work.
Put AI to work as an assistant: organize records, summarize evidence and test initial analysis.
Keep source checks and NEPA decisions in your hands.
Choose your course
For newer and experienced NEPA staff, reviewers and consultants.
- POL-201NEPA Fundamentals Using AI ToolsStart here if you're new to NEPA, or adding AI to work you know.
- POL-301Categorical Exclusions (CE, CX, CATEX) Using AI ToolsStart here if you screen proposals for categorical exclusions.
- POL-401NEPA Writing, Review & Quality Assurance Using AI ToolsStart here if you write or review NEPA documents.
- POL-501Advanced NEPA Analysis & Decision-Making Using AI ToolsStart here if you tackle difficult evidence and decision questions.
What AI tools can do for your NEPA work
- Research with sourcesFind data and guidance fast, with links you check.
- Organize the recordTurn hundreds of pages, studies and comments into tables and issue lists.
- Trace every conclusionFollow facts to sources to findings, and see where support is thin.
- Review with a rubricCheck any document, yours or a consultant's, against clear criteria.
Why build AI skills
- Access to AI is easy. Knowing what to do with it is the skill.Opening an AI tool isn't the same as using it professionally.
- Your experience is the advantage. AI extends its reach.Your experience is the knowledge that lets you direct the tool, recognize weak work and make better decisions.
- Try the work that used to be out of reach.The opportunity isn't just speed; previously impractical work becomes realistic.
- Know what to delegate. Know what to check. Know what stays yours.People make every call; every AI result gets checked.
- You don't have to like it. You do need to be able to check it.You decide where AI belongs, where it doesn't, and how to judge what others produce.
Why learn with NWETC
- How we work: Since mid-2024, we have changed our ways of working by incorporating AI tools.
- How we build courses: We use AI tools to strengthen proven curriculum and create better learning opportunities for our attendees.
- How we teach: Every class gives you hands-on time with AI tools and new ways to apply them in your professional role, in rapidly changing professional environments.
We earned our expertise the hard way: a significant investment of staff time and resources, and constant practice through success and failure. As the tools, techniques and content change, we keep building our skills, and we share what we have learned in every class.
In every course
- Work with actual NEPA documents and processes
- Check every AI result before you rely on it
- Create new workflows and improve old ones
- Learn techniques that work across AI platforms
Agency procedures, structures and roles keep changing. Build skills that help you adapt now.
NEPA Writing, Review & Quality Assurance Using AI Tools
A two-day, hands-on document clinic for people who write, review, or manage NEPA documents. Practice reviewing real-world-style drafts, returning comments authors can act on, checking long documents for consistency, managing consultant drafts, and building a defensible project record, with AI tools used for bounded, verified support.
NEPA Fundamentals Using AI Tools
Two-day hands-on NEPA course teaching today's reality, not textbooks. You'll write real documents in small groups, build evaluation rubrics, and learn how NEPA works post-CEQ strike-down and post-2025 Supreme Court ruling. Covers what agencies are actually doing now—and how to work within your own process. Works as a refresher for experienced professionals or an accessible entry point for newcomers.