After being shredded by the last administration, the National Environmental Policy Act is being put back together again – sort-of….
Evolution of The National Environmental Policy Act
Tag: NEPA
Primed and ready for another Epic Earth Day!
It was on April 22, 1970, that the idea of “Earth Day” brought 20 million Americans out into the streets to proclaim their love for our precious planet.
Reassembling NEPA
In our last episode in the life of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the foundational policy of all environmental legislation had been blown up by the previous administration…
My, how things change – mostly
Fortunately it seems like the folks in the current Administration have the interests of saving the planet in mind, not the interests of the oil industry.
We won! – sort-of
While the 2020 Presidential election frees us from the specter of the collapse of the Republic for the moment, it does not portend all it could have…
Dropping the NEPA Bomb
As anticipated, the Administration released their revised version of the National Environmental Policy Act. This has been a long-sought-after plumb for the oilmen, and really, they have been polishing up for this moment for 40 years.
What lies ahead
In these last months of the current administration, they are hell-bent on destroying all regulations that constrain extraction industries – which is why we need to show up!
Those Pesky Corporatists
We’ve just filed our comments on the Administration’s efforts to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act (ESA or “The Act” hereinafter). For me this was a challenge because most of my comments on proposed actions are reviews and critiques of Draft…
Hobbling the NEPA Process
We’ve just filed our comments on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Review. NEPA started out as a seven-page act signed into law in 1970 and serves as the over-arching document that ties together the application of all other…
NOAA Tinkers with acoustical standards to appease industry
Some improvements were recently made to the acoustical standards but most were “academic” and just promised to remove some of the ambiguity from the regulations. But a troubling component was the somewhat arbitrary tinkering with the Low Frequency exposure thresholds – substantiated with…