Trump is right to reform NEPA, but will it be enough?

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President Trump recently announced proposals to update regulations to the keystone statute governing federal environmental analyses. Predictably, radical environmental groups are apoplectic and have begun issuing doomsday predictions about the consequences of his proposal.

The reality, however, is that the changes the Trump administration wants to make to the National Environmental Policy Act would return necessary reasonableness to what has become an overly complex, expensive, and time-consuming process.

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