This week, Lynn Scarlett writes on how NEPA review has evolved:
The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) was perhaps the most significant and far-reaching of numerous statutes enacted during the 1970s, a period that some have called the "Environmental Revolution" in American politics and legislation. Most importantly, NEPA required the preparation of an environmental impact statement (EIS) of the environmental effects of significant federal actions. In this commentary, RFF Visiting Scholar Lynn Scarlett describes the difficult and as-yet unfinished evolution of the EIS requirement from a contentious process toward one characterized by much more meaningful public participation as well as more collaborative interaction among interested parties.
Read the Commentary here. Comments about it are welcome on this post.
