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:marseyletsfuckinggo2: :marseyletsfuckinggo2: TRUMP KILLED NEPA :marseyletsfuckinggo2: :marseyletsfuckinggo2: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN :marseyletsfuckinggo2: :marseyletsfuckinggo2:

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NEPA is an environmental regulation that makes it impossible to do anything in America without ten years of environmental review. Summary of how bad NEPA is

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https://adamunikowsky.substack.com/p/the-future-of-nepa

NEPA has drawbacks, but what about its benefits? Well, one important thing to remember is that NEPA—or at least the portion of NEPA that is judicially enforceable—is a purely procedural law. NEPA is not like the Clean Water Act or the Endangered Species Act, which enact substantive environmental protections. It merely requires the agency to write things down. If an agency wants to turn Yellowstone National Park into a nuclear waste dump, and it explains this decision thoroughly, NEPA will not stand in the way.

So NEPA doesn't, or at least doesn't directly, protect the environment. Instead, NEPA's ostensible goals are to educate the public and promote reasoned decision-making. But it's not clear that NEPA is effective at accomplishing those goals.

Again: look at the Eagle County EIS [a 3,600-page report on environmental impacts of an 80 mile stretch of a railroad in the desert]. Although some people might be interested in particular aspects of this document, approximately no one will read it from cover to cover. A document no one will read shouldn't be written.

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Wow it's a document no one will "read" because I've defined "read" to mean from cover to cover?? The author even undermines his own point in the same sentence, is there or isn't there someone reading it? I won't also won't comment further on his delusions that AI should be writing these things, even though it's a pretty good indicator that he's a clueless mongoloid who thinks AI is magic.

The problems with NEPA are that 1) the scope is poorly defined leading to the Eagle County issue, where the document gains considerable bloat in its attempt to cover everything within "rule of reason" (lol) and that 2) even after this bloat the courts may be clogged up by litigation post-publishing. The proper response to this is for congress to stop fishing for soundbites about [current issue] and do their darn jobs in restricting the power of the executive, not to just let projects move forward while we consider if said project is a good idea or not. Hopefully you at least agree with the primary goal of NEPA, which is verifying the opportunity costs of allowing a project to move forward.

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