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The Trump Administration Is Poised to Gut Environmental Review. What’s at Stake? – Center for American Progress

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The Trump Administration Is Poised to Gut Environmental Review. What’s at Stake? – Center for American Progress

n yet another handout to Trump’s corporate donors and oil, gas and coal industry allies, the administration is expected to gut implementation of the only law that requires the federal government to consider the environmental impacts of its actions and gives the public and communities a voice in federal decision-making. Thirty industry groups—including the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute—recently sent a letter to the Trump administration asking it to “expeditiously proceed” with its changes to the law’s implementation. That 50-year-old bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), has never been under such grave threat.

What Will Happen to Trump’s Republican Collaborators?

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What Will Happen to Trump’s Republican Collaborators?

But there aren’t any die-hard Nixon supporters in either chamber of Congress who are now remembered as patriots, no matter what else they did with their careers before, during, or after his presidency. The figures who live on are those like Ervin and Judge Sirica, who brought Nixon to justice, and, as the historian David Greenberg has noted, “those loyalists who abandoned Nixon early, when it mattered.”

Ahead of impeachment trial, Trump suggests not having it – syracuse.com

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Ahead of impeachment trial, Trump suggests not having it – syracuse.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.

Sure, why not? It's not like his buddies are going to convict him, even though he got the highest level sanction he can get from the House of Representatives. Trump needs to go.

Roads, Bridges and the Future of Civilization-Episodes-Trump on Earth Podcast

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Ep. 26: Roads, Bridges and the Future of Civilization-Episodes-Trump on Earth Podcast

As Congress pays out more than 36 billion dollars in disaster relief, the General Accounting Office recommends that the federal government find ways to minimize the economic impacts of climate change. President Obama started moving in that direction when he signed an executive order requiring infrastructure be designed to survive flooding and other consequences of climate change. Obama's order was never finalized, and President Trump issued an executive order of his own that pretty much undid it. So what's the danger if infrastructure policies do not consider the risks that are coming with climate change? 

I think Trump’s regulatory rolling back of cumulative impact in NEPA will be devastating

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I think Trump’s regulatory rolling back of cumulative impact in NEPA will be devastating. 🌎

Some of the things proposed by Trump are bad but this is devastatingly bad for our country. Looking at cumulative impacts of government policy is at the heart of the National Environmental Policy Act, ignoring it basically guts the law. We need to fully understand the impacts of government policies before moving forward, especially with large complicated projects. It’s always better to avoid impacts then try to fix them after the fact. 

NPR

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Trump Rule Would Overhaul Landmark Environmental Law : NPR

A key part of the administration's proposal centers on whether agencies must consider the cumulative environmental effects of things like pipelines, which have attracted protests by climate activists across the country.

Under the new limits, federal agencies would only need to consider effects that are "reasonably foreseeable" and have a "close causal relationship" to the project. That could mean simply the impact of building thepipeline.