[2111USMC]

She noted that the government justified its decision to forgo an environmental analysis of the regulation on the grounds that the rule does not "authorize" environmental impacts. Calling this a "tautology," Kollar-Kotelly wrote that federal officials "abdicated their Congressionally-mandated obligation" to evaluate environmental impacts and "ignored (without sufficient explanation) substantial information in the administrative record concerning environmental impacts" of the rule.

I don't know how much longer I can take this. One of these days I'm gonna go postal and go on a spotted owl killing rampage.

[MHGinTN]

Beware the revenge of the snail darters though ...

[marktwain]

“She noted that the government justified its decision to forgo an environmental analysis of the regulation on the grounds that the rule does not “authorize” environmental impacts. Calling this a “tautology,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote that federal officials “abdicated their Congressionally-mandated obligation” to evaluate environmental impacts and “ignored (without sufficient explanation) substantial information in the administrative record concerning environmental impacts” of the rule.”

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If this rule requires an environmental impact, then *everything* requires an environmental impact, transforming the EPA into a bureaucracy that controls the whole country instead of 60% of it.