A man, his bulldozed neighborhood — and NEPA

摘要

Marvin Roger Anderson recalls when bulldozers ravaged St. Paul, Minn.'s African American neighborhood,demolishing hundreds of houses in the path of Interstate 94.The year was 1956. The federal government wasn't required to ask Anderson or his neighbors in the Rondoneighborhood for input or consider environmental consequences before cementing the town."They found our little area, and they wiped it out," Anderson recalled in a telephone interview this week.Anderson, 80, wants to make sure that doesn't happen again. The former attorney and Minnesota state librarian isamong 175,000 or so people who have filed comments on the Trump administration's plan to change theimplementation of the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act with an eye toward speeding up federal reviews ofpipelines, highways and other major projects. The comment period closed Tuesday.