It was easy to miss what was in President Trump's executive order on infrastructure last week, as it was swept aside by his zealous response to follow-up questions about his reaction to the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va. The president caught a lot of heat for doubling down in his rhetoric, blaming "both sides" for the violence and calling some of those marching with white supremacists "very fine people." But before all that happened, the president, along with National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, revealed a plan to accelerate the nation's infrastructure projects by scaling back some environmental restrictions — but at what cost?
