; Whereas efforts to block the enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act will require the United States to spend billions more taxpayer dollars on infrastructure projects that won’t survive the effects of climate change; Whereas the National Environmental Policy Act is a critical civil rights tool that gives all Americans a voice in Federal decision making by allowing communities to be informed and weigh in on major proposed projects affecting their communities; Whereas the National Environmental Policy Act requires Federal agencies to evaluate the degree to which proposed projects affect air quality, water quality, public health, and public safety in nearby communities and consider alternative approaches that would be better for nearby communities and the environment; Whereas before the enactment of the National Environmental Policy Act there was often no way for people living in disadvantaged communities to become aware of, much less have their voices heard on, major projects that would result in disproportionate health and environmental impacts in their neighborhoods; Whereas that when the National Environmental Policy Act’s public input process is cut short or weakened, ill-conceived projects advance that can have devastating public health and environmental consequences for American communities; and Whereas the National Environmental Policy Act’s charge to foster and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony is timeless and its insistence on meaningful local involvement, sustainable development, and deliberate Federal decision making was, and remains, visionary: Now, therefore, be it