{"id":4017,"date":"2020-07-16T07:14:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T11:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weact.org\/updates\/peggy-shepard-raises-concern-of-cumulative-effects-in-the-weakening-of-nepa-in-the-washington-examiner-july-15-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:09:12","slug":"peggy-shepard-raises-concern-of-cumulative-effects-in-the-weakening-of-nepa-in-the-washington-examiner-july-15-2020","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/peggy-shepard-raises-concern-of-cumulative-effects-in-the-weakening-of-nepa-in-the-washington-examiner-july-15-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Shepard Raises Concern of Cumulative Effects in the Weakening of NEPA in the Washington Examiner \u2013 July 15, 2020"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4017","update","type-update","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","update_type-news","person_tax-peggy-shepard"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"featured_image":5828,"update_type":[14],"focus_area":false,"authors":[232],"abstract":""},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"In a July 15, 2020 article in the Washington Examiner on the Trump administration\u2019s weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), WE ACT for Environmental Justice\u2019s Co-Founder &amp; Executive Director Peggy Shepard noted that the changes would eliminate the environmental review process that provides vital information on the health impacts of these projects on local communities. She also pointed out that NEPA requires a review of the cumulative impact of projects, weighing the combined risks of all the projects and facilities in a given community, which is critical because they frequently are clustered in low-income communities and communities of color. While the project under review may not exceed pollution limits on its own, NEPA served as a safeguard to ensure that those levels, when combined with other local sources of pollution, would not expose the community to levels that put people\u2019s health at risk. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/energy\/trump-to-overhaul-decadesold-environmental-permitting-rules-in-bid-to-speed-infrastructure-approvals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read the Article<\/strong><\/a>","include_drop_cap":false}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peggy Shepard Raises Concern of Cumulative Effects in the Weakening of NEPA in the Washington Examiner \u2013 July 15, 2020 - WE ACT for Environmental Justice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/weact.org\/es\/updates\/peggy-shepard-raises-concern-of-cumulative-effects-in-the-weakening-of-nepa-in-the-washington-examiner-july-15-2020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peggy Shepard Raises Concern of Cumulative Effects in the Weakening of NEPA in the Washington Examiner \u2013 July 15, 2020 - 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