If you pick through President Trump’s parade of executive orders upon taking office last week, you’ll find many that revoke orders made by President Biden. But in one, Trump dug even further back: He revoked an executive order issued by President Carter in 1977. Carter’s order gave the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), a branch of the White House, the authority to issue binding regulations governing how federal agencies must comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Trump, by revoking it, takes away that power from the CEQ. This may seem technical, but Trump in effect set off a process that could lead to meaningful changes in the way the government handles environmental reviews for everything from oil pipelines to solar farms to highways to light rail systems to national parks. Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains what you need to know: https://voxdotcom.visitlink.me/KWXQkE