HE CAN'T DO THAT!
If he wants to propose legislation to change NEPA for Congress, he can do that. But, he cannot simply change the law.
He won't have success no matter what he tries to BUY HIS CAMPAIGN FUNDS from his friends. We know for a fact the minority communities across the entire country, including Hawaii and Alaska, face higher and dangerous pollution to their neighborhoods. No matter what Trump tries to weaken environmental law, it won't work.
We have seen what occurs in our minority communities because of segregation and really lousy housing options. They are dying more than other Americans when exposed to SARS-Cov-2 and contract COVID-19. These Americans are important people, yet they continue to suffer from negligence on many fronts. It is institutional neglect. We need to find ways of protecting these Americans and making changes to NEPA is not the way forward.
What can be done and should be done are repairs to existing pipelines. The pipelines in the country need attention and quite possibly replacement. A good example of that is Line 5 that crosses a very sensitive area of the Great Lakes.
July 2, 2020
By John Flesher, AP Environmental Writer
Traverse City - A Michigan judge (click here) Wednesday allowed Enbridge to resume pumping oil through a Midwestern pipeline, nearly a week after shutting it down because of damage to a structure that anchors a section of the line running through a Great Lakes channel....
If this pipeline begins to leak it will adversely effect all the Great Lakes. The country has old pipelines and they need attention. That should be the focus on pipelines in the future.
Trump, when issuing directives to damage the environment he is committing human rights abuses. That is not permitted in the USA. It is unfortunate that Trump does not value human life but only views it through the lens of profit and cost. He is definitely not a president that cares about Americans but only the power the presidency brings money to himself and his cronies.
July 14, 2020
By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis
President Trump (click here) plans this week to overhaul a federal law that poor and minority communities around the country have used for generations to delay or stop projects that threaten to pollute their neighborhoods — a law he says needlessly blocks good jobs, industry and public works.
The president’s plan to streamline the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock environmental law signed with much fanfare by President Richard M. Nixon in 1970, would make it easier to build highways, pipelines, chemical plants and other projects that pose environmental risks.
If the final version mirrors a proposal from January, it would force agencies to complete even the most exhaustive environmental reviews within two years and restrict the extent to which they could consider a project’s full impact on the climate....
