Forest Service seeks to exempt some logging and mining from environmental review rules
by Anna M. Phillips, Los Angeles Times
Jun 12, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday announced plans to narrow the scope of a major environmental law, allowing the agency to fast-track activity throughout the national forest system without undergoing environmental review.
The proposed changes could potentially make it easier for logging, road building and other construction projects to gain approval than under current rules - and much more quickly. One of the revisions, for example, would eliminate the need to conduct an environmental study before
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