How a Trump effort to cut environmental red tape could backfire

Grist
By Naveena SadasivamMar 7, 2025, 4:45 am172 pts
For roughly half a century, a little-known body called the White House Council on Environmental Quality has been in charge of overseeing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, a 1970 statute widely considered the “Magna Carta” of environmental law. Congress passed the law at a…

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