How a Trump effort to cut environmental red tape could backfire

A recent article in Grist explored the recent dismantling of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, which oversees the implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a 1970 statute widely considered the “'Magna Carta' of environmental law.”

Jennifer Jeffers offers some perspective on the impacts of recent court decisions, as well as the Trump Administration's actions, “The two cases definitely started going down that pathway of questioning or calling out what authority CEQ actually had. I don’t think that many people had foreseen this because it had been a longstanding practice and had not been a source of contention until quite recently.”

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