Shortchanging the Environment While Making NEPA More Chaotic
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2025-07-07
Summary:
In one of Trump’s first executive orders, he eliminated a centralized system that Jimmy Carter initially set up to issue regulations governing environmental impact statements. Instead, he called on each agency to issue its own regulations, which seems to have caused the predictable amount of confusion. There seems to be little rhyme or reason in the variations