this is very alarming to me

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PRESS ROOM
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION GUTS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT
Final Council on Environmental Quality regulations to trigger legal challenges

Heavy equipment is moved at a pipeline construction site in eastern Pennsylvania. The following day, heavy drilling liquid leaked out to the nearby street and residential area. The National Environmental Policy Act helps communities protect themselves from dangerous, rushed or poorly planned federal projects.

We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed. We’ll be seeing them in court.

Kristen Boyles
Attorney, Earthjustice
JULY 15, 2020
Washington, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration finalized its proposal to gut more than 40 years of settled environmental law. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released the final text of a sweeping rule which will eviscerate core components of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a crucial safeguard for communities’ clean air, clean water, and health, as well as imperiled species and wild lands. Environmental justice and conservation advocates announced their intention to respond to the rollback with legal action.
CEQ’s proposal is the culmination of a relentless, multiyear assault on NEPA’s protections for workers, local communities, and the natural environment. It would open the door for the government to exempt pipelines, large-scale logging operations, waste incinerators, smog-spewing highways, and countless other federal actions from environmental review or sharply limit local communities’ ability to participate in the environmental decision-making process.

“When is this administration going to learn that the economy is the people?” said Kristen Boyles, an attorney with Earthjustice. “Gutting NEPA silences voices and puts vulnerable communities, health, and our environment — including our air and water — at risk. We’re not going to sit back and allow a decision that could harm public health during a public health crisis go unscathed. We’ll be seeing them in court.”

“We have consistently defeated this administration’s relentless, vicious dismantling of safeguards for people and the environment, and we will do so again with this final rule,” said Susan Jane Brown at the Western Environmental Law Center. “A thriving economy is not at odds with worker protections and a healthy environment — it depends on both.”

The administration’s disregard for NEPA flies in the face of decades of bipartisan consensus on the law. Passed almost unanimously by Congress and signed into law by President Nixon in 1970, it was the product of years of determined activism from people who wanted a greater say in decisions affecting their homes, health, and environment.

 

this is very alarming to me. right now at different times we have flesh eating bacteria in both salt and fresh water. most rivers around here like the coosa river have signs warning people about eating the fish they catch. in detroit and the navaho nation both cannot drink their own water. i know deer hunters that have killed deer that had cancer and crazy stuff that looks like leprosy.and they keep trying to gut the protections in place so big corps like oil and gas and coal will make more profit. this is complete madness. and of course climate change is a joke to this administration as well as many followers including some on here. where does it end? i have no children but what about them? what are we going to leave them? i even had a christian associate tell me it does not matter because he says the bible claims we only have a few years left anyway and everyone will be gone.wth? i guess he meant the rapture. but earth is our home and maybe if we take care of her she will continue to provide for us.

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Me too.   But what did you expect?

But I think a change is a coming.