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June 5, 2020

Trump Executive Order Waives Environmental Review for Infrastructure Projects
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President Trump has taken new steps to gut the Endangered Species Act
and the National Environmental Policy Act. Citing the economic crisis
caused by the COVID outbreak, Trump has signed an executive order to
remove the environmental review process for major projects, including
new mines, highways and pipelines.

Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in San Francisco has overturned the
EPA's approval of a popular herbicide made by Monsanto. The court found
the EPA had substantially understated the risk caused by the product. 


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