Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth 10th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 28

Government agencies can help to keep an economy going or to boost certain types of economic development by, for example, building or expanding a major highway through an undeveloped area. Proponents of such development have argued that requiring environmental impact statements as a part of governmental regulation of such projects interferes with efforts to help an economy. Do you agree? is this a problem? Why or why not?