The #Trump Administration exempts new #nuclear reactors from #environmental review

Geoff Brumfiel, February 2, 20263:09 PM ET

"The Trump Administration has created an exclusion for new experimental reactors being built at sites around the U.S. from a major environmental law. The law would have required them to disclose how their construction and operation might harm the environment, and it also typically required a written, public assessment of the possible consequences of a #NuclearAccident.

"The exclusion announcement comes just days after NPR revealed officials at the Department of Energy had secretly rewritten environmental, safety and security rules to make it easier for the reactors to be built.

"The Department of Energy announced the change Monday in a notice in the Federal Register. It said the department would begin excluding advanced nuclear reactors from the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct. The act requires federal agencies to consider the environment when undertaking new projects and programs.

"The law also requires extensive reporting on how proposed programs might impact local ecosystems. That documentation, known as an #EnvironmentalImpactStatement, and a second lesser type of analysis, known as an #EnvironmentalAssessment, provide an opportunity for the public to review and comment on potential projects in their community."

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/02/nx-s1-5696525/trump-nuclear-safety-regulations-environmental-review

#NoNukes #NoNewNukes #NuclearPlants #USPol #PublicReview #Secrecy #NuclearSafety #NuclearPollution #EnvironmentalImpact
#NoNukesWithoutConsent #EnvironmentalLaw #TrumpAdministration #NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies

#BC #NDP are just like the Cons in #Ontario and everywhere else in #Canada - rolling over #IndigenousRights and title, #humanRights, #water protection, #environmentalAssessment, #ecosystems stewardship.... . https://watershedsentinel.ca/article/ebys-trump-card/

#bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

"…the Ring of Fire … is primarily the privately held Wyloo mining company that stands to benefit from #Ontario’s decision in Bill 5 to exempt its Eagle’s Nest #mine from #EnvironmentalAssessment entirely. This – combined with #ON’s bankrolling of the new all-season road through the peatlands … necessary to get the minerals out – is a huge public #subsidy to the company, owned by an #Australian #billionaire …."

Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone

#ONPoli #CdnPoli

"There’s a whole lot of violating the so-called rule of law going on." Not to mention #IndigenousRights and #humanrights. https://breachmedia.ca/indigenous-rights-energy-superpower-canada-bulldoze/

#Canada #cdnpoli #IndigenousTitle #ecosystems #environmentalAssessment

#BigOil especially #ImperialOil is a bully! https://cabinradio.ca/214759/news/economy/mining/imperial-oil-issues-another-norman-wells-shutdown-warning/

#NWT #SubArctic #environmentalassessment #Canada

Sometimes #BigOil can't get away with bullying and threatening communities and #Indigenous stewards of the land and #water. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/review-board-imperial-oil-ea-1.7400458

#ImperialOil #NWT #WaterisLife #environmentalassessment #environment #Canada

What. The actual. F*CK!!! 😮🤬

“The Ontario government has officially passed Bill 212 — a controversial piece of legislation that gives the province sweeping control over municipal bike lanes and lets construction of Highway 413 begin before Indigenous consultation or environmental assessment is complete.”

#Politics #CanadaPolitics #Transportation #BikeLanes #MultimodalTransportation #Mobility #EnvironmentalAssessment #TribalLands #TribalConsultation

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bill-212-bike-lanes-highway-413-passes-1.7392821

Narwhal: "Unravelling the complicated past of B.C.’s newest pipeline conflict"

Matt Simmons resolves #BCPoli mystery: Who is really backing the #BCCons?

The #LNG / #FossilFuel camarilla.

#Rustad negotiated some of the original deals for the original project. The #cabal want him as Premier, to approve the very different project (different line, route, destination, LNG plant) without new #EnvironmentalAssessment.

He absolutely would.

Now we know.

https://thenarwhal.ca/prince-rupert-gas-transmission-history/

OnlineFirst - "Agential cuts of regulatory science practices – the case of microplastics" by @johannakramm:

#microplastics #Barad #agentialcut #regulation #environmentalassessment #waste #apparatus #posthumanistthought

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231221020