America built, dug, fabricated, excavated, welded, reburied, and covered over 5000 MILES of oil and gas piping in the MIDDLE of WWII - at the same time it was building over 540 airfields and hundreds of Army and navy bases and over 30,000 ships.
But back the the federal government didn't have to file environmental impact statements and have to fend off dozens of lawsuits filed by organizations with no standing whatsover to file a lawsuit.