Environmental Racism in Action: The Trump Administration’s Plans to Gut NEPA

By Derrick Z. Jackson, Union of Concerned Scientists The Trump administration is trying mightily to gut the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the law that mandates rigorous, science-based environmental impact reviews for major infrastructure and construction projects prior to federal permitting. NEPA also reserves significant time for the public to weigh in on the impact of projects to […]