State AGs urge Trump to revoke NEPA executive order

June 30, 2020
Maryland Attorney General (AG) Brian Frosh (D) is leading a coalition of 16 AGs urging President Donald Trump to drop his controversial executive order instructing agencies to use emergency provisions to exempt major infrastructure projects from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and other environmental laws when possible. In a June 29 letter to Trump, Frosh says that the emergency exemption provisions in NEPA, the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act were never intended for economic issues, such...

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