There will be lawsuit after lawsuit filed when any entity attempts to break the law.
42 U.S.C. §4321 et seq. (1969) (click here)
NEPA needs to be made stronger and include assessments of the Climate Crisis.
January 9, 2020
By Lisa Friedman
The White House on Thursday (click here) introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review or consideration of climate change.
Many of the changes to the law — the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, a landmark measure that touches nearly every significant construction project in the country — had been long sought by the oil and gas industry as well as trade unions, which have argued that the review process is lengthy, cumbersome and used by environmental activists to drag out legal disputes and kill infrastructure projects.
Under the law, major federal projects like bridges, highways, pipelines or power plants that will have a significant impact on the environment require a review, or environmental impact statement, outlining potential consequences. The proposed new rules would narrow the range of projects that require such a review and impose strict new deadlines on completing assessments....
Any protests of the Department of the Interior and the USA EPA under Trump can begin with this!
This is time lapse photography of the Mendenhall Glacier of the Juneau Ice Fields. This in Juneau, Alaska. The lake gets bigger, the ice into the lake becomes less and less and the moraines at it's outside boundaries become exposed.
The albedo of the glacier is diminished setting up a negative feedback loop. The soot on the terminus of Mendenhall is caused from air pollution and the melting of the ice. As the ice melts the water runs off and the soot accumulates. The more dense the soot, the more heat from the sun is absorbed in the form of infrared.
