I guess I'm a tree-hugging hippie
It's really quite amazing to read through these Supreme Court cases and watch them completely eviscerate NEPA to the point of uselessness. It was intended in the 1970s to get the Federal Government to be more aware of their effects on the environment and change their actions to be more responsible. Then the court limited it to only having an informative value (An example given by the court was that if the agency wanted to go ignore the NEPA report, also known as an EIS, of alternatives and eradicate 100% of the mule deer population, that's a-okay!). Now, just recently, the court has taken away NEPA's default injunctive relief (which had been the rule for the last 40 years), so agencies can violate NEPA by not writing up an EIS and still go forward with their projects. At least in the past when an agency forgot to do a proper look at the environmental impact of their action, people could get the courts to tie up the project until it was properly done. I don't see any point to NEPA anymore, if we can ignore and straight-out violate the law with nary a care.
It's maddening.
It's maddening.