May 2020, Vol. 247, No. 5
Government
CEQ Pro-Pipeline NEPA Changes Generate Heated Attacks
By Stephen Barlas, Contributing Editor In Washington, on Feb. 22, Christy Goldfuss, former managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under President Obama, stepped to the microphone during a public hearing and attempted to drive a rhetorical stake through the heart of the U.S. interstate pipeline industry. She assailed the Trump CEQ for proposing reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) announced in January and said the CEQ proposed rule “will let fossil fuel companies move forward with pipelines and other major dirty projects without disclosing harmful public health, environmental and climate change impacts. We know what’s driving this –

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