US President Joe Biden’s administration is restoring federal regulations that require rigorous environmental review of large infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — including likely impacts on climate change and nearby communities.The longstanding reviews were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track projects and create jobs.A US rule finalised on Tuesday will restore key provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law designed to ensure community safeguards during reviews for a wide range of federal proposals, including roads, bridges and energy projects authorised in the $1 trillion infrastructure law Biden signed in November, the White House said.
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