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Consider eliminating judicial review of environmental review documents

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 16, p. 533. Written by William Perry Pendley.

Consider eliminating judicial review of environmental review documents

The document says “should considerWho acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 533 in the PDF
What the document says

“Consideration should be given, for example, to eliminating judicial review of the adequacy of NEPA documents”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 533

The chapter raises this as something to consider rather than as a recommendation, and says it would allow Congress to engage in effective oversight of federal agencies when prudent. It separately asks that Trump-era environmental review reforms be restored, including time and page limits.

What the document actually says

“Consideration should be given, for example, to eliminating judicial review of the adequacy of NEPA documents”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 533
That sentence, in plain words

One idea is to stop courts checking these reports.

What this is about

Big projects need a report on harm to nature. People can sue if the report is poor. The book says courts could be shut out of that. It offers this as an idea.

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