NEPA reform

House Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing on Another Ill-Conceived Permitting Reform Bill

The SPEED Act takes aim at the scientific foundation of environmental review

The proposed iSPEED bill includes provisions that would fundamentally compromise the integrity of federal decision making processes by allowing—or even compelling—the government to ignore scientific and technical information critical to understanding the effects of a federal action and how those effects could be mitigated.

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