On paper, the National Environmental Policy Act sounds like a good idea. Passed in 1970, the same year Earth Day was created, NEPA requires allwants to build a highway, it has to study not just how the construction of the road will affect the surrounding community, but also the exhaust from the cars.
Smoke from a wildfire obscures a stand of trees on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation near Ashland, Montana on Aug. 11, 2021. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court where the justices sided with the snail darter. It ended up taking a special act of Congress exempting the Tellico Dam from NEPA to get the project completed.
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