Public sentiment is largely critical, reflecting significant concern for environmental issues against economic interests. Many express disappointment with the Supreme Court's decision, fearing it prioritizes fossil fuels over sustainability. Concerns over inefficient clearance processes and judicial effectiveness in protecting the environment are prevalent.

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"Unlike those later-enacted laws, however, NEPA imposes no substantive environmental obligations or restrictions. NEPA is a purely procedural statute that, as relevant here, simply requires an agency to prepare an EIS—in essence, a report. Importantly, NEPA does not require the agency to weigh environmental consequences in any particular way."

"n this case, the U. S. Surface Transportation Board considered a proposal by a group of seven Utah counties for the construction and operation of an approximately 88-mile railroad line in northeastern Utah. Under federal law, the Board determines whether to approve construction of new railroad lines. The railroad line here would connect Utah’s oil-rich Uinta Basin—a rural territory roughly the size of the State of Maryland—to the national rail network. By doing so, the new railroad line would facilitate the transportation of crude oil from Utah to refineries in Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere. And the project would bring significant economic development and jobs to the isolated Uinta Basin by better connecting the Basin to the national economy.

For that proposed 88-mile Utah railroad line, the Board prepared an extraordinarily lengthy EIS, spanning more than 3,600 pages of environmental analysis. The Board’s EIS addressed the environmental effects of the railroad line. But the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit nonetheless faulted the EIS for not sufficiently considering the environmental effects of projects separate from the railroad line itself—primarily, the environmental effectsthat could ensue from (i) increased oil drilling upstream in the Uinta Basin and (ii) increased oil refining downstream along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas.

On that basis, the D. C. Circuit vacated the Board’s EIS and the Board’s approval of the 88-mile railroad line. As a result, construction still has not begun even though the Board approved the project back in December 2021. We reverse. First, the D. C. Circuit did not afford the Board the substantial judicial deference required in NEPA cases. Second, the D. C. Circuit ordered the Board to address the environmental effects of projects separate in time or place from the construction and operation of the railroad line. But NEPA requires agencies to focus on the environmental effects of the project at issue. Under NEPA, the Board’s EIS did not need to address the environmental effects of upstream oil drilling or downstream oil refining. Rather, it needed to address only the effects of the 88-mile railroad line. And the Board’s EIS did so"

"The upshot: NEPA has transformed from a modest procedural requirement into a blunt and haphazard tool employed by project opponents (who may not always be entirely motivated by concern for the environment) to try to stop or at least slow down new infrastructure and construction projects."

"Simply stated, NEPA is a procedural cross-check, not a substantive roadblock. The goal of the law is to inform agency decision making. not to paralyze it."

"Indeed, certain project opponents have relied on NEPA to fight even clean-energy projects-from wind farms to hydroelectric dams, from solar farms to geothermal wells. See, e.g., Brief for chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. as Amici Curiae 19-20"

"All of that has led to more agency analysis of separate projets, more consideration of attenuated effects, more exploration of alternatives to proposed agency action, more speculation and consultation and estimation and litigation. Delay upon delay, so much that the process sometimes seems to "borde\[r\] on the Kafkaesque." Vermont Yankee, 435 U.S., at 557. Fewer projects make it to the finish line. Indeed, fewer projects make it to the starting line. Those that survive often end up costing much more than is anticipated or necessary, both for the agency preparing the EIS and for the builder of the project. And that in turn means fewer and more expensive railroads, airports, wind turbines, transmission lines, dams, housing developments, highways, bridges, subways, stadiums, arenas, data centers, and the like. And that also means fewer jobs, as new projects become difficult to finance and build in a timely fashion."

[https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-975\_m648.pdf](https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-975_m648.pdf)

I encourage people to go read the decision. I personally don't like Kavanaugh, but this opinion really nails it on the head at how byzantine its become. I pulled a few paragraphs from his opinion to just show here.

This was an 8-0 decision curtailing the power of the courts when it comes to the respect of NEPA.

This is a major part of Abundance. Things like CEQA, NEPA, Wetlands law, WOTUS regulations etc being abused heavily.

Dreadedvegas

It is a great ruling, it is unanimous, but in CA, where I live, we have CEQA, which I think will still have these issues, and which covers more items.  So in CA, I think we are still screwed.  However, this is great to let the public see how ridiculous and expensive the environmental review process has become.  Most of us in CA can barely afford to live here, and shit like this is part of the reason.

Realistic_Special_53

beermeliberty

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems like the projects that will be easier as a result of this almost all have to do with making it easier to extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels? That seems like the opposite of at least the stated broader objectives of "abundance", no? 

I thought the goal, here, was to make things like housing, green energy, public transit and healthcare easier to construct — not to just adopt blanket deregulation even if there are serious negative consequences. Again, maybe I'm misinterpreting something here, but this feels like exactly the sort of thing that lefty critics of the agenda have been concerned this will turn into — a massive boon for fossil fuel interests with serious short, medium, and long term consequences.

mojitz

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and suddenly nothing from LG who was in the news every other day.

Zealousideal-Part849

People in power have  ~0 AQI, from home to Car to their office to their Golf courses. I don't think they care about the lives of you &amp; me.

_TheBlueMagician

They did intervene, they allowed firecrackers as a test on a population of more than 2crore

not-trying-my-best10

Supreme court is the one that allowed 'green crackers' do you think they care? According to govt, delhi mai toh pollution hai hi nhi, ofcourse sc won't go against that. Also with tampering of AQI numbers, they'll say sab sahi hai tum hi problem ho.

Logical-Passenger766

Super court was compromised long time ago. They don't have power against the party in charge in Delhi.

Dmannmann

dioraddict1983

Supreme Court now has judges who were appointed at HC and SC level by this govt. Expecting them to take serious action/cognizance of actual issues affecting population like air pollution is impossible because it will affect public opinion about the govt.

deadfrominsideadv

Supreme Court of this country intervening in BJP related matters👇

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Delhi atleast had an empathic government in the form of AAP. Even when their hands were tied, they cared about Delhi people and did everything in their power they could. They had morals.

Did they not realise the psycho nature of BJP party before voting? That Modi never did a Press Conference, or how BJP ministers don't care about deaths of the public, or how the corrupt join them and all charges are dropped? Or how they spread hate.

Delhi people still voted for them, and not just in Lok Sabha, but even in Vidhan Sabha. That's some next level sh*t.

Now Delhi people should enjoy Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh style like Governance.

Solid-Network-3096

You should read what the current CJI designate had to say on the stubble burning issue when he was hearing the case in previous years.

ihavenoyukata

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Aur do bjp ko vote🤣🤣🤣

One-Judgment4012

Correct-Smile-5851

India has Air Act. Such things in India are considered luxury. People here have a survival mindset.

BendingAllFour

No BR Gavai has only speaks about pollution when he has to go to the court and his Mercedes doesn’t have 3 AQI inside

xyz-eus

Suo moto cognizance faltu chizon me hi toh yaad ata hai

remind_me_to_pee

cause the govt is of a good party, they can't do anyting wrong !! Who is SC to question such powerful and revolutionary CM ??   
Are u mad ??

Ace_2ooo

Honeydew4290

Ask who do those judges serve now and you will get your answer

iceman111011

Sad-Engineer4826

Kuki hum hi boltey why the supreme court is intervening in policy matters let politics do their work. We didn't support the supreme court at that time at all.

mosaicmusings

The law and government doesn't gives a fuck about it. It is what it is

Own-Hedgehog7825

None of the elected people will do anything. They just want to play the blame game. The entire hopes of the “people in power” were on the ‘cloud seeding’. To imagine that thorough research should have been done before doing a bogus experiment. Our lives mean nothing, we are just slowly going to get various issues with our health and perish. There was no Plan B in place. Ugh! It’s so infuriating. No, not all of us have the money to abandon our homes for a long time and go live somewhere else and increase pressure on limited resources of a place. Eventually, we’ll cause new issues in those places too. Such feeling of helplessness is so disheartening. Also, the particular group of faith the current government seems to want to protect will also perish away with the “others”.

squidward244

Supreme Court needs a 'reasonable ground' to take matters in their hands. Reasonable ground means the SC has some solid proof that the administration is doing nothing like sitting ducks and that they need some big brother push. The thing is, the administration *is* working. Now you may point out so many flaws and how their work is so poor in quality but in bureaucratic jargon, that counts as _working_. So yeah, the administration is working and the SC does not see any reasonable ground to take suo moto cognizance in this regard

Pussyless_Penis

lollipop_laagelu

No evidence, no suo moto. 

What is supreme Court going to do, jail CM for falsifying data? Who will check if the data is false? Government. Who is falsifying data? Government. 

Shakespeare wrote comedy of errors, BJP is writing comedy of murders. 

Vote BJP.

zen-shen

Supreme court kya kehta thaaa....? KYA HO TUM ??!!! Aaj hum(bjp) kehte hai, TU KYA HAI BEYYY??!!

Interesting-Escape60

febsign

Bhai koi lockdown ys odd even mat laao please 🙏😭

Nihal_uchiwa

SeaLaugh8232

Because the judiciary is not the legislature or the executive. It is naïve to think that complicated multi faceted ill posed problems can be solved through the judiciary

prateeksaraswat

Lmao people are saying "coz aap is not in power anymore", AS IF LITERALLY ANYTHING WAS DIFFERENT UNDER AAP.

Zirby_zura

We got so used to Judicial Overreach. Damn.

wickedGamer65

Atleast GRAP was functioning under AAP, now even GRAP stage 3 is even not mandated.

BJP is not even acknowledging high aqi numbers.

Altruistic-Fan-4199

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How about we lay off disarming our citizens during a fascist takeover of the federal government, no?

Blood-blood-blood

No one wants this, including the Oregon liberals

ADrenalinnjunky

Really just needs to get struck down. The whole measure is nonsense, california-copycattery. There are better ways to achieve 'public safety', and this measure never should've been on the ballot to begin with. Not possible to implement, 10 round red herring clause, not will-issue, and an additional tax on Oregonians.

Amaeyth

Please do the right thing Supreme Court. With fascism in the office now is not the time to restrict the right to defend yourself. Yall really want ONLY the state and right wing to have all the firearms? Criminals, cults, and law enforcement are EXCLUDED from the gun control measures meaning only YOU dear citizen will be disarmed unless you’re rich. This law makes it so the poor don’t have their rights

Ancient-Bat8274

The Oregon state government is too incompetent to transition to a system where all firearms holders need a "permit" without a massive delay. Most police departments don't have a place they can dedicate to a gunshot test for civilians and they haven't identified any places to take the instruction course that meets all criteria of the ballot measure.

When all people in Oregon can't buy guns for even a short period of time, there will be an instant federal lawsuit and the whole thing will get put on hold again.

monkeychasedweasel

The law itself is ridiculous but we're on the verge of an economic recession we haven't seen in more than a decade and our federal funding to the state of Oregon is getting cut. WHERE IS THE MONEY? It's why the Oregon legislative branch pushed implementation back to 2026. It'll take millions to implement and millions more to maintain. And to attempt to cover it they'll try to push the permit fee to ludicrous costs. They've already increased the cost of them. This is literally a law that'll let the rich have guns but screw over anybody poor.

Yonsei_Oregonian

The only effective gun control is the elimination of systemic poverty.

akahaus

Can we delay this until democracy is in a safer place?

Edit: THIS DOESNT MEAN I AGREE WITH IT FFS

Oregonrider2014

I hope they declare it "Not Enough" and send it back for us to tighten up.  Like maybe add a clause against military style guns... I realize I am about to get down voted off the island, but I really don't care.

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How is SCOTUS deciding on Environmental stuff now.  I don't see these as being unconstitutional.  Oh right now everything is related to what they think.

TintedApostle

&gt; Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion for the court and **there were no dissents. Ultimately, both liberal and conservative justices agreed with the bottom line decision** ...

&gt; Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative, recused himself from the case.

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Unhappy_Gazelle392

States rights. Each state their own environmental rules as well. The red states will become the polluted chemical dumps. Starting with nuclear waste in Wyoming.

williamgman

The Supreme Court of India has reviewed and overturned a prior judgment that deemed retrospective environmental clearances illegal, citing potential economic repercussions of demolishing ongoing projects.

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