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In a record turnout for a midterm election, voters issued a powerful rebuke of Trump’s reckless presidency. Now it’s time for leaders to step up and carry out the people’s will to protect our environment and health.

The Environmental Protection Agency reviews federal agencies's environmental impact statements for quality of the analysis and the scope of the possible environmental harm of a project. The Agency quietly ended a 30-year-old policy of scoring the quality of the work with a simple number and letter grade. Now the public—and press—will not have a short-hand head-up on the quality of a review unless they read the entire Environmental Impact statement and the often dense, EPA comments.