Trump Becomes Favourite For Construction Trade Unions
Trump’s administration is going to be gold for all fossil fuel projects. According to his plans, federal agencies no longer need to consider the effect of such projects on the environment. This means that Trump’s administration is giving a clean chit to all those companies that can now flaunt environmental concerns and build highways, pipelines and undertake any other major infrastructural projects. This is going to mark changes to a 50 year old National Environmental Policy Act. The proposed changes to this act could also mean the administration narrow down the range of projects that actually need environmental reviews. This will also mean that in most likelihood, more projects will sail through the approval process without having to disclose plans to do things like discharge waste, cut trees or increase air pollution. Since its enactment in 1970, the act has undergone only one major change. In 1983 the act was amended when the White House Council on Environmental Quality li...