President Donald Trump took another step on Sunday toward making the United States a country that builds things. The White House Council on Environmental Quality rescinded the regulatory framework for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, a law that has made everything from housing construction to road repairs more expensive and time-consuming since it was passed in 1970.
Unfortunately, as fast as Trump is moving on permitting reform, unless the law changes or NEPA is outright repealed, the regulatory environment Trump leaves behind could be worse than the one he inherited.
Some people like to refer to NEPA as the Magna Carta of environmental law, but that is wrong. All real progress made by the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act are independent of
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