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Currently reside in Dumbfuckistan. Tecumseh had it right. Naturalist, artist, multi-racial, beyond progressive, on the spectrum. Pro-union member. Disobedient North Coaster. Ma Rainey out on X.
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June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Excerpt from a 2018 article back when Trump tried to bypass/destroy NEPA then.
A screenshot of a portion of a news article from 2018, stating “NEPA is fundamentally about community empowerment and democratic decision-making, both of which require people to have access to information. When a state or local government wants to use federal funds to build something, it must first complete an environmental review. This review is intended to discover any significant individual or cumulative environmental impacts that the project would create. These impacts could include anything from habitat fragmentation and species loss to adverse social, economic, health, or cultural effects on low-income individuals or communities of color. As part of the review process, the public has the right to comment on the proposed project. Before a project can receive federal approval, the state or local government sponsor must address these comments and, where possible, make changes to mitigate community and environmental impacts. In short, NEPA is the sunshine that illuminates governmental planning, allowing the public to understand and shape proposed projects before a single shovel goes into the ground. Importantly, the federal government did not stumble into requiring environmental review. NEPA is not the result of thoughtless regulatory accretion. The law represents a hard-fought political victory decades in the making. Congress enacted NEPA in 1969 because the status quo of developing projects behind closed doors and without careful study had produced truly dreadful results.” Just in case anyone was wondering why getting rid of NEPA is a terrifying thing to propose.
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM