President Trump speaks at an infrastructure meeting with mayors and governors at the White House in June. “We have no intention of eroding environmental protections,” Alex Herrgott, associate director of infrastructure at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said when he addressed the Transportation Research Board’s annual conference this month. The plan would also expand the government’s ability to have private firms pay for the federal environmental reviews of their own projects. Those changes are no longer in the White House plan, according to an individual who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations. In its last budget proposal, the White House said the government’s $200 billion share could be partly funded by cutting programs elsewhere.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2018 22:45 UTC