SPEEDing Environmental Destruction

In December, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to advance HR 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act. Targeting the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), our country’s basic charter for protecting the environment, the SPEED Act would narrow the scope of federal actions that receive an environmental review, as well as limit consideration of both scientific data and climate impacts when reviewing federal projects.

By undercutting NEPA’s core principles of informed decision-making, transparency, and public input, the SPEED Act would let projects such as new power plants, highways, oil and gas development, and logging move forward without adequate consideration of the harmful environmental impacts, disregarding science and marginalizing the voices of the communities that would be most impacted.

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