Trump eases environmental reviews for the space industry

August 15, 2025

The commercial space industry exemplified by Elon Musk’s SpaceX could be exempted from certain environmental reviews and freed from some other regulatory restraints under an ambitious-sounding executive order signed by President Trump on Wednesday.

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