{"id":2455478,"date":"2020-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322215"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:46:22","slug":"why-we-need-nepa-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/why-we-need-nepa-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we need NEPA intact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Environmental impact studies can take two years or more and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s an inconvenience to the developers who\u2019d like to see approvals fast-tracked so they can make a quick buck. This is particularly true of oil and gas drillers who know their industry isn\u2019t long for this world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sometimes years is how long it takes to correctly evaluate the impact of a development on future generations. Can we think about our children and grandchildren every once in a while?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I\u2019m sure public input into industrial development is a pain in the ass for those same entrepreneurs, especially when they know a portion on that public is gonna be negatively impacted by their plans. That\u2019s the way democracy works. The people shouldn\u2019t be left to take whatever the money grubbers want. These proposals affect public lands, so the public should have a say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Shorter EISs and limited public comment are two of the provisions in the Trump administration\u2019s proposed rollback of the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act. For once, this wasn\u2019t one of Barack Obama\u2019s environmental protections. It was the brainchild of that noted tree-hugger Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We don\u2019t have to be quiet about this. Contact White House Council on Environmental Quality Director Mary Neumayr at <a href=\"mailto:FN-CEQ-Open-Gov@ceq.eop.gov\">FN-CEQ-Open-Gov@ceq.eop.gov<\/a> and tell her \u201cenvironmental quality\u201d will be preserved if we leave NEPA alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Fred Malo Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/why-we-need-nepa-intact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental impact studies can take two years or more and I\u2019m sure that\u2019s an inconvenience to the developers who\u2019d like to see approvals fast-tracked so they can make a quick buck. This is particularly true of oil and gas drillers who know their industry isn\u2019t long for this world. Sometimes years is how long it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 11:52:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455532,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455478\/revisions\/2455532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}