National Environmental Policy Act under siege

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The erosion of environmental policy
By Erica Rosenberg
THE BUSH administration and Congress have been chipping away at the National Environmental Policy Act, the law that requires federal agencies, such as the Forest Service and the Army Corps of Engineers, to do environmental impact reviews of their actions and programs. Now the House is about to consider how to "modernize" the act, but based on what the White House and Congress have already done, it's clear that the agenda isn't so much updating the law as gutting it.

Like other recent campaigns that have hidden environmental assaults under euphemisms — such as the Clear Skies Initiative, which aimed to roll back air pollution controls — the attack on NEPA is being sold as something it isn't: cooperative conservation.