(no subject)
I talked with a gentleman who works for an environmental agency in Lousiana, who was a consultant for the gov't in helping write the environmental impact statement for the proposed fencing at the San Diego/Tijauna border and he told me that after hundreds of hours of work designing an evironmental impact statement about the proposed plan to construct the fence through the ecological reserve that is the Tijuana estuary, Secretary Chertoff used his authority to sign a waiver before any of the environmental agencies signed off on the statement to start construction right away. The gentlemen thought it was very "unfortuneate" that the Chertoff didn't wait for the approval of environmental agencies like the EPA and the California Coastal Comission. Why was the EIS even made if Chertoff can use the authority vested in him by the powers of the Department of Homeland Security to start construction without any approval from any environmental agency?