Impacts www.washingtonpost.com President Trump overhauls the National Environmental Policy Act The move, which is likely to be challenged in court, underscores the stakes this year as the two parties battle over how to balance environmental protections against economic development.
Politics Nixon signed this key environmental law. Trump plans to change it to speed up pipelines, highway projects and more Black, brown and poor communities have relied on the law for generations to stop projects that could impact their neighborhoods.
Opinion www.nytimes.com Shoshanna Saxe, Kristen MacAskill: Stop building more roads There’s a right way to do infrastructure. Why does America get it wrong?
Impacts www.alleghenyfront.org Is weakening a landmark environmental law Trump's biggest rollback yet? “It's a fundamental attack on our system of environmental protection."
