Timeline

April 2017
August 2017
September 2017
October 2017
May 2018
June 2018
September 2018
April 2019
June 2019
January 20202
April 2017

The White House Council on Environmental Quality withdraws its guidance on the consideration greenhouse gas emissions for environmental reviews.

 

September 2017

President Trump issues Executive Order 13807 shortening the timeline for environmental reviews and instructing federal agencies to revise their NEPA implementing procedures.

 

October 2017

President Trump nominates climate denier Kathleen Hartnett White to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

 

September 2018

The Forest Service announces plans to revise its regulations governing mining and oil and gas exploration.

 

 

April 2019

President Trump signs two Executive Orders expediting the permitting process for risky oil and gas pipelines, limiting states’ decision-making power on such projects.

 

June 2019

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.”

 

 

January 20202

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.