Bill Number: HJM 15
Position: Oppose
Sponsor: Judy Boyle
Bill Info: A Joint Memorial supporting the White House Council on Environmental Quality proposed rulemaking to roll back the National Environmental Protection Act.
Under the new rules, government agencies could ignore the landscape-scale or global impacts of a project, such as climate change; public participation would be reduced to the lowest legal amount; and complex environmental reviews would be subject to arbitrary time and page limits. The proposal also explicitly allows a project applicant, such as a company proposing to mine or drill public minerals or on tribal lands, to prepare its own environmental impact statement and removes the prohibition on hiring contractors that have conflicts of interest, such as financial ties to the applicant.
Take Action to Stop the Trump Administration's Rollback of our Nation's Bedrock Environmental Law: https://ourbase.us/civicrm/petition/sign?sid=63&reset=1
Idaho Legislature Website Link: https://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2020/legislation/HJM015/