TAKE ACTION! Our nation’s oldest environmental law is under attack TAKE ACTION Robust public engagement and sound science are essential to informed decision making. Tell the Forest Service: This is, and must remain, the public’s right under NEPA. For nearly 50 years, the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, has been an empowering legal tool that allows communities to defend themselves and their environments from dangerous, rushed or poorly planned federal and industry projects. The law ensures that your community has a say when special interests want to build a toxic waste incinerator in your neighborhood or a dangerous pipeline next to your child’s school. Now, the United States Forest Service, under pressure from the timber and mining industries, is considering putting our nation’s oldest and most important environmental law on the chopping block. This decision could result in massive logging, dril...