The lawsuit filed by the Center for Biodiversity, the American Bird Conservancy, the Surfrider Foundation, Save RVG, and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claims that the FAA failed to follow the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before signing off on SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy launch project in June last year. …
If mitigation measures existed to prevent these problems today, surely the company would have adopted them. SpaceX having to wait years to start launches again while an EIS is created means the company will lose years of data from additional test flights.
It’s one example of how environmental review laws, and lawsuits citing them, can impinge on a goal that environmentalists and SpaceX are both seemingly in favor of: fewer SpaceX rockets exploding.
[That’s not the goal of radical environmentalists. Their goal is to stop SpaceX from launching rockets at all. Their goal is to prevent any kind of human progress in favor of a Gaia-worship approach to stewardship, and their use of lawfare in that fight has been remarkably successful. — Ed]
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