Biden Admin Renews Environmental Rules Rolled Back by Trump

Miles of unused pipe, prepared for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, sit in a lot outside Gascoyne, North Dakota, on Oct. 14, 2014. Andrew Burton/Getty Images

The White House announced this week it’s restoring environmental regulations that had been scaled back during the Trump administration.

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump rolled back provisions from the Nixon-era National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in an effort to cut red tape and make it easier to complete infrastructure projects.