I thought that federal environmental review was so last administration.
“because of a delay in the federal review process”
Big surprise. How much you want to bet we hear about further delays by Trump’s administration next time groundbreaking is supposed to be imminent?
Good to see the environmentalists in the Trump administration finally putting forth some effort.
Groundbreaking for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will be delayed until next year because of a delay in the federal review process.
Just as the Soviet Union erased the existence of purged individuals, it seems that Trump is trying to wipe out any evidence of the Obama administration.
Wait a minute…trump’s badministration might not approve???
No! I’m shocked…shocked…cue Inspector Renault…
Yep…it’s very old school…at least back to 1984.
Meh. This project is actually sited in Jackson Park with substantial impacts to the park and citizen advocates on both sides of the project, which likely means this will end up in administrative review court. I’d rather see the feds do this right than do it fast.
A public library planned. Excellent. Don’t think Mango Mussolini will have a public library.
Unlike the georgewbush presidential library or the never-going-to happen djt presidential library, The Obama Presidential Center will actually have books in it.
Just for fun, imagining how PuPPet lost the 2020 election to someone named Warren.
You are surely right but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit to learn that Trump personally directed federal agencies to slow-roll the construction in whatever ways they can.
If the administration wants to make things harder, the way to do that is through the negotiations on mitigation. Mitigation’s going to be a bitch in any case, given the activism of citizen park groups. It’s also not the case that the EIS is being slow rolled (suggestive TPM headline notwithstanding). This is a huge project inside a national park, and the EIS process is only just getting started. If they complete it in 2019 or even 2020H1, that would not be unreasonable. The project also needs to stand still long enough for it to be reviewed. With so many parties involved, it’s still a moving target.
What environmentalists? Maybe you meant “environmentalists” - My count is zero.