Rewrite the environmental review rules and ban cumulative impact analysis
What the document says“The President should instruct the CEQ to rewrite its regulations implementing NEPA along the lines of the historic 2020 effort and restoring its key provisions such as banning the use of cumulative impact analysis.”
The National Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review before major federal actions. The chapter says the President should have the Council on Environmental Quality rewrite its rules along the lines of the 2020 revision, restoring the ban on cumulative impact analysis, and should frame the new rules to limit the scope for judicial review of agency environmental analysis and the remedies available.
What the document actually says“The President should instruct the CEQ to rewrite its regulations implementing NEPA along the lines of the historic 2020 effort and restoring its key provisions such as banning the use of cumulative impact analysis.”
The president should have this office rewrite the rules on environmental checks. It should go back to the 2020 version. That version banned adding up effects over time.
Big projects must be checked for harm to the environment first. One rule made agencies add up harm from many sources together. The book wants that rule dropped. It also wants courts to have less say.
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