This story underscores how toothless our environmental regulations are. Rather than protect people from these kinds of developments (which shouldn’t even be all

This story underscores how toothless our environmental regulations are. Rather than protect people from these kinds of developments (which shouldn’t even be allowed to happen), all they do is provide a never ending cycle of lawsuits for NIMBY groups posing as environmentally conscious entities to slow down development in wealthy areas so they can wait until there’s an agreeable payoff. Meanwhile, the poorer areas get developed without so much as a sniff from the government agencies as long as someone somewhere checked the correct boxes saying an environmental study was done (regardless of the study’s conclusions). We need real environmental law reforms. The EPA should be abolished and rebuilt with an actual mission to protect the environment instead of their current regulatory regime which has been completely captured by industry and “environmental” groups.