The government routinely exempts large projects from environmental restrictions. So why is this one being scrutinized to oblivion? Because Democrats don't want it to, and they have the veto power. In the last year alone, the state of CA has exempted the high speed rail and the new Sacramento Kings arena from environmental impact studies just to ram them through. The government can do whatever the hell it wants regardless of environmental impacts. Let's not lie to ourselves, here.

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