The White House Council on Environmental Quality withdraws its guidance on the consideration greenhouse gas emissions for environmental reviews.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality withdraws its guidance on the consideration greenhouse gas emissions for environmental reviews.
The Department of the Interior limits the length and scope of environmental reviews on public lands.
President Trump issues Executive Order 13807 shortening the timeline for environmental reviews and instructing federal agencies to revise their NEPA implementing procedures.
President Trump nominates climate denier Kathleen Hartnett White to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) narrows consideration and disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions for pipeline projects.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality issues an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) opening up NEPA to potentially serious revisions.
The Forest Service announces plans to revise its regulations governing mining and oil and gas exploration.
President Trump signs two Executive Orders expediting the permitting process for risky oil and gas pipelines, limiting states’ decision-making power on such projects.
The White House releases new climate guidance for environmental reviews eliminating requirements to analyze long-term climate impacts of federal projects. The so-called climate guidance fails to mention the phrase “climate change.”
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announces sweeping rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), seeking to rubberstamp dangerous and toxic federal projects, cut public out of government decision-making, and further entrench federal climate denial.