CBD suit seeks records on Trump order to accelerate infrastructure

July 10, 2020
The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is suing several federal environment and land use agencies for data on how they are implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) directing them to waive some environmental reviews to speed infrastructure projects, including Clean Water Act (CWA) permit actions. CBD filed its complaint on June 9 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asking the court to compel the Fish & Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management at the...

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