Environmental Impact Statement

A few students have been asking about the different parts of an EIS. This article from Cleveland's The Plain Dealer lays out some useful elements. But you might compare this journalistic description with the more academic one in Steiner's Living Landscape and ask yourself why they seem different. Can you find hints about things that we talked about like the scoping or alternatives, and does the outcome seem reasonable?

FAA reroutes planes over NJ

After the development of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement, the FAA has announced how they plan to reroute planes over the NJ landscape. Aside from the usual deatils of an EIS, I found the supporting graphics to be quite interesting for their ability to reduce a complex decision to a cartoonish story.