by Eric Ruark
NEPA stands for the National Environmental Policy Act which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970.
[NEPA] requires the federal government to use all practicable means to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony.
On the NEPA.gov homepage it says that the legislation is the “‘Magna Carta’ of Federal environmental laws.” This all may sound like fanciful descriptions of a federal statute, but NEPA really is one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in American history, and as such it can cause great controversy with how and when it’s applied; and when it’s ignored by the executive branch for political or ideological reasons.
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