<story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch. Then, here&amp;#x27;s the tough part, don&amp;#x27;t expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.</text></item><item><author>amcoastal</author><text>This is extremely dangerous. Waiving environmental review and consideration when building roads and bridges is extremely foolish. They greatly effect water quality at crossings and alongside the roads. My guess is this will be held up in courts and not allowed to go further -- it is an extreme deviation from what we currently do (which is held up by supreme court precedent). Entire industries are built on doing environmental impact studies and mitigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitwit005</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s a two party system where neither seems to care that the presidency wields too much power, so fixing it is probably in the realm of constitutional amendments at the moment.</text></comment>
<story><title>Trump to Sign Executive Order Waiving Key Environmental Laws</title><url>https://e360.yale.edu/digest/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-waiving-key-environmental-laws</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>LanceH</author><text>Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch. Then, here&amp;#x27;s the tough part, don&amp;#x27;t expand executive power when your own party is in the white house.</text></item><item><author>amcoastal</author><text>This is extremely dangerous. Waiving environmental review and consideration when building roads and bridges is extremely foolish. They greatly effect water quality at crossings and alongside the roads. My guess is this will be held up in courts and not allowed to go further -- it is an extreme deviation from what we currently do (which is held up by supreme court precedent). Entire industries are built on doing environmental impact studies and mitigation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inetknght</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Perhaps we can push back against what is effectively legislation by the executive branch.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;By doing what? Protest?</text></comment>