Posted on 10/06/2021 9:42:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest reversal of a Trump-era environmental rollback, President Joe Biden is restoring federal regulations guiding environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects such as highways and pipelines. The reviews were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track the projects.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality said Wednesday it will restore key provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law designed to ensure community safeguards during environmental reviews for a wide range of federal projects and decisions.
Last year, President Donald Trump overhauled the rules in a bid to accelerate projects he said would boost the economy and provide jobs.
Trump made slashing government regulations a hallmark of his presidency. He and his administration frequently expressed frustration at rules they said unnecessarily slowed approval for interstate oil and gas pipelines and other big projects. The rule change imposed last year restricted the timelines for environmental reviews and public comment and allowed federal officials to disregard a project’s role in cumulative effects, such as climate change.
The 2020 changes caused implementation challenges for federal agencies and “sowed confusion among stakeholders and the general public,″ the White House said in a statement. The changes proposed Wednesday will restore regulatory certainty and “help ensure that American infrastructure gets built right the first time and delivers real benefits — not harms — to people who live nearby,” Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory said.
Contrary to assertions by the Trump administration, Mallory and other White House officials said, the new rule will actually speed up completion of major projects, since a rigorous review is more likely to withstand a legal challenge by environmental groups. Many Trump-era environmental decisions were reversed or delayed by courts after finding they did not undergo sufficient analysis.
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The Democrat Party motto: “Anything To Hurt America!”
Let the kickbacks flow!
As a collage intern I worked on some of these. They are a total waste of time and money. Their sole output is manufacturing job for white Leftist with advance degrees from Universities
Okay. Now turn these regulations back on their advocates. For all the housing projects intended to bring inner city dwellers to the suburbs, drown them in environmental reviews. For the giant infrastructure projects like California’s rail boondoggle, drown them in environmental studies and delays!
We need a Department of Prevention to oversee this crap. Either that or a Department of Wishful Thinking.
“the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law”
You can smell the liberal bias when the language becomes rhetoric. Which laws are “bedrock” and which are just “topsoil”? AP hacks, distorting the truth 24/7/365
Screw government back up better 🤪
Let me fix that headline for you:
“White House restoring bribe opportunities for big projects”
The Big Guy has to get his cut.
Yeah! More $ for consulting firms. Right on! Paper pushers taking care of each other.
Delay, delay, delay
The best solution is to find an envirowacko and skin him alive
Delay, delay, delay
The best solution is to find an envirowacko and skin him alive
Does this apply to all the “projects” in the infrastructure bill? That would mean that items such as CRT seminars need to have environmental impact studies completed of the effect of the traveling required.
Got to feed dough to all the enviromental law firms to make some big dough, the Big Guy’s 10% don’t come out of thin air yaknow.
Democrats need more campaign money so send in the lobbyists..
Also causes nasty effects on project timelines, so big costs there, too.
As a collage intern I worked on some of these. They are a total waste of time and money. Their sole output is manufacturing job for white Leftist with advance degrees from Universities
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This.
I was a federal employee who worked on the spotted owl survey. The commie wildlife biologist admitted to me he cooked the books on population density/habitat acres
” for the greater good”
The EPA needs to be repealed in its entirety cuz it’s infiltrated with long march commies and infested with fraudulent “ studies” imho.
It’s all deindustrialization driven.
I told my boss.
Crickets.
And I didn’t get hired back on with another NTE 180 the next year.
So ended my forestry career.
I
Hate
Commies.
This way, nothing substantial gets built after the ‘Infrastructure’ bills pass.
his wife is a negro
Negro lives matter
De Blasio will be governor
Then President
QED
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