On January 10, the Trump administration announced it plans to roll back the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), excluding more projects from NEPA review and allowing project developers to write the environmental analysis.
We know what that looks like. Deepwater Horizon was exempted from full environmental review under NEPA. As a result, the economic and environmental impacts of a blowout were never analyzed, mitigated or properly considered. We lived the costly lesson of that mistake.