President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
has often criticized the government's environmental assessment process as overly onerous. The National Environmental Policy Act, signed by President Richard Nixon, is regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of environmental legislation enacted at the start of the modern environmental movement.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the court's ruling without any dissent. Ultimately, both liberal and conservative justices agreed with the final verdict.
Kavanaugh ruled that the environmental issues in the case—an 88-mile railway that would transport waxy crude oil from Utah's Uinta Basin to existing rail networks—were ''not close.''
''Courts should afford substantial deference and should not micromanage those agency choices so long as they fall within a broad zone of reasonableness,'' Kavanaugh wrote.
''Simply stated, NEPA is a procedural cross-check, not a substantive roadblock,'' he later added. ''The goal of the law is to inform agency decision-making, not to paralyze it.''
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, recused himself from the case. He did not explain his decision to withdraw the appeal, but it came after Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
on Capitol Hill claimed that Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz, a major Gorsuch supporter, had a financial stake in the result of the case.