President Trump often gets itchy to sign some giant public-works spending bill. Here’s a much better gift to America: The White House on Wednesday finished its renovations to the process for environmental reviews. This might sound as dry as old cement, but it’ll help big projects get built for years to come—that is, if President Joe Biden doesn’t use an expedited procedure next year to undo it. A 1970 law called the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, mandates an environmental study if a major project involves federal...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 16, 2020 23:18 UTC