The Epoch Times The White House announced this week it’s restoring environmental regulations that had been scaled back during the Trump administration.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump rolled back provisions from the Nixon-era National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in an effort to cut red tape and make it easier to complete infrastructure projects.
“The United States can’t compete and prosper if a bureaucratic system holds us back from building what we need,” Trump said at the time, calling the federal approval process “outrageously slow and burdensome.”
The Biden administration on April 19 finalized a rule restoring the requirement that federal agencies rigorously evaluate all environmental effects of their decisions, including major construction projects such as highways, pipelines, and oil wells…
