Deadline to comment on Trump CEQ Rules (NEPA) Evisceration

Deadline to comment on Trump CEQ Rules (NEPA) Evisceration 3/27/25

For more information go to rule making proposal –

https://www.regulations.gov/document/CEQ-2025-0002-0001

Temporary Guidance after CEQ rules revoked-

https://ceq.doe.gov/docs/ceq-regulations-and-guidance/CEQ-Memo-Implementation-of-NEPA-02.19.2025.pdf

Link to Earth Justice’s pre-fab on-line comment letter (simple to send)

https://earthjustice.org/action/polluting-industries-are-trying-to-silence-communities?ms=web

The National Audubon Society has a pre-fab on-line letter you can send on rule making (simple to send):

https://act.audubon.org/a/nepa-2025?contactdata=7lBwMlpDJvi5/08qyvwAr+CzjopOIYCrJeVl4Zxcc+pAZNwXVN1IXB6Y0wIQVBaAxfuAVJuKYazEl5RYPrPHddKuwNLKGquQ9CldE2AGFAcR0Rc4O6opc8dEr8X6X2y6ryZtzv00hH7UXZP0hHVYzy2ipTRgH+IJUS1AqcEyoXGPzpK3EbRkX0lkJ/vzknclGaOqCbFwomzZTmN/rpOAAjDhj+EIPbTk6n//FjictSFWZwwNXPoBwN3QLXBJrwAqfXBYaM7xGjFOPhpjgsmB3hgA1gfqmdu5DmjCzOnvTJc9BFi8PWyfDsi1rOxnbbo8&ms=policy-adv-email-ea-x-advocacy_20250319_(nas)_20250319_alert-nepa_old&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=advocacy_20250319_(nas)_20250319_alert-nepa_old&emci=f3039551-1d04-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&emdi=bfe8e6d6-7006-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=4030932

Quote from Earth Justice who offer a sign on letter for groups:

“The Trump administration issued an Interim Final Rule revoking the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Those regulations apply to over 80 agencies in the federal government and our organizations, our communities, rely on them to ensure we have a say in how decisions are made about how infrastructure is built, how taxpayer dollars are spent, and how public lands and resources are managed.

The implications of this action are sweeping and severe – it will now be up to individual agencies to determine how to comply with NEPA, what impacts to disclose, and what level of public input is required. Worse yet, in guidance issued with the revocation of the regulations, the Trump administration urged agencies to use the controversial 2020 regulations issued during the first Trump administration. Over 325 organizations submitted detailed comments strenuously opposing those regulations and they were rightly subject to multiple lawsuits. The guidance the White House issued goes even further in rolling back the review of environmental and health impacts by the federal government by explicitly stating that reviews “should not include an environmental justice analysis.””

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If you are a from a group, who want access to an EarthJustice sign-on letter on this rule, ask Nancy at 605-787-6466 or phas.wsd@rapidnet.com for the link to read and sign the letter. 3/25/25 COB deadline for sign on letter.