Environmental Magna Carta under siege.

The article reports that the United States has slowly cast aside its role as a leader in the field of environmental assessments because successive administrations have chipped away at the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) since it was signed into law by President Richard Nixon in January 1, 1970. The NEPA was enacted after the news coverage on the oil spill in Santa Barbara, California and the Cuyahoga River fire in Ohio. NEPA protections have slowly been taken away by Congress and by federal agencies which have issued the rules.