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SCOTUS Slaps Down Green Overreach: 8-0
Ruling Frees Infrastructure from NEPA Shackles

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Posted By: chagrined, 6/2/2025 12:00:05 PM

In a rare but resounding act of judicial sanity, the Supreme Court of the United States has delivered an 8-0 ruling that reins in one of the most abused weapons in the bureaucratic arsenal: environmental obstructionism. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, stemmed from a challenge to a planned railway in Utah, a project that environmentalists attempted to kneecap through endless litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In a time when green tape has been weaponized to stall or cancel everything from pipelines to housing, this decision marks a turning point—and it’s worth celebrating.

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Sanity still exists in the U.S. Supreme Court. Here's proof! Now how do we get them to expand this pragmatic thinking to other subjects?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Venturer 6/2/2025 1:06:41 PM (No. 1958795)
We need a few mor 8-0 decisions. The first being that minor league Judges cannot over rule the President of the United States.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: halfnorsk 6/2/2025 1:55:04 PM (No. 1958815)
Who spiked the water at the SCOTUS building? I'm dumbfounded that even the angry feminists crossed over to the side of common sense.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Starboard_side 6/2/2025 2:34:04 PM (No. 1958826)
This should help reduce the red tape many groups have used to slow or cancel development projects. I'm sure many in the Palisades and Alta Dena burn areas were being pushed by environmental groups for all sorts of reports before anything could be approved. This requires hiring lawyers and it delays projects for years in many cases if not decades.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WI Cynic 6/2/2025 4:28:30 PM (No. 1958867)
Stunning. SCOTUS cannot rule 8-0 on what to order for lunch, lot less something relating to the law.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Omen55 6/2/2025 4:31:15 PM (No. 1958870)
When even the 3 agree you are way too left.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Venturer 6/2/2025 8:30:28 PM (No. 1958956)
8 to 0 Somebody went missing.
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