The federal government lacks authority to waive three dozen conservation and preservation laws to rebuild a 15-mile stretch of the border wall in San Diego, an environmental nonprofit alleges.
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to waive 37 environmental laws—including the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—to start construction on a tiny portion of the border wall project President Donald Trump pledged to build.
The Center for Biological Diversity contends DHS cannot endlessly invoke the environmental waiver authority Congress granted it in 1996 and again in 2005 for ...
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