In an appearance yesterday at the UPS Hapeville Airport Hub in Georgia, President Donald Trump announced a major highway infrastructure project for that state, which will facilitate inter-city truck traffic, and indicated he had many more such projects both for Georgia and the country, although he offered no details or indication of financing.
A particular focus of the President’s appearance before an audience of UPS workers, their families and executives, was his administration’s overhaul of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), whose regulations, he said, had been a major obstacle to building any infrastructure projects in the country, delaying approval for years, and sometimes decades. After thorough study, he said, administration officials have succeeded in removing “mountains and mountains of bureaucratic red tape,” to allow for the efficient building of “incredible” projects. Predictably, the mainstream media went berserk over Trump’s announcement, howling that he was overturning years of environmental legislation, and warning that millions of Americans would die from the resulting pollution.
