Nixon Signed This Key Environmental Law. Trump Plans to Change It to Speed Up Pipelines, Highway Projects and More

“President Trump plans this week to overhaul a federal law that poor and minority communities around the country have used for generations to delay or stop projects that threaten to pollute their neighborhoods — a law he says needlessly blocks good jobs, industry and public works. … One of the biggest changes the administration is proposing is eliminating the law’s requirement to examine a project’s cumulative impact, when taken in the context of other sources of pollution in the area.

— The Washington Post

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