Politics
Trump Poised to Streamline Nixon-Era Environmental Reviews
- Narrower analysis charted under bedrock environmental law
- Activists say move guts 50-year-old protections for public
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The Trump administration is scaling back requirements that agencies consider environmental consequences when approving new oil wells, pipelines, highways and other projects.
The first-in-decades rewrite of the rules governing how agencies scrutinize projects under the National Environmental Policy Act comes as both Democrats and Republicans seek to bolster the economy with new infrastructure projects.