Biden Environment Permit Rewrite Undoes Some of Trump Plan (1)

Federal agencies will have to consider the climate change impact of infrastructure projects, land management efforts, and many other activities under a final rule the White House issued Tuesday.

The rule precedes a second, more significant set of changes to the National Environmental Permitting Act rules coming later in the year. Tuesday’s rule undoes some—but not all—of the changes to the nation’s environmental permitting regime that the Trump administration had imposed. They apply to a wide range of infrastructure works, including oil and gas pipelines, federal mining projects, roads, bridges, and renewable energy projects.

The tug-of-war over NEPA regulations nudges ...