For the first time in decades, the White House will no longer
have National Environmental Policy Act rules. But it will take
some time to see changes in how the bedrock environmental law
is applied, legal experts say. Project developers are grappling
with the potential consequences of President Donald Trump
scrapping the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s
NEPA regulations — rules that since 1977 have told federal
agencies how to analyze the effects of building pipelines,
transmission lines, highways and wind farms.
