The Trump administration was again accused of moving to attack the environment and wildlife in response to reports that the White House is moving to gut a five decade-old law referred to as the Magna Carta of environmental legislation.

The proposal targets the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which was signed in to law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970. It requires federal agencies to identify and consider the environmental and climate impacts of proposed actions including federal permits for infrastructure projects such as pipelines, and gives the public a chance to weigh in on the proposals.

“It’s shameful that the Trump administration is ripping apart America’s cornerstone environmental law on its 50th anniversary,” said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity, in statement Monday.

In addition to nixing the requirement that cumulative impacts are considered, “the administration will more narrowly define the type of project that requires an environmental review,” the New York Times first reported Friday, citing an anonymous government official.

Reuters reported:

The CEQ is also expected to limit the scope of projects that would trigger stringent environmental reviews called environmental impact studies, expand the number of project categories that can be excluded from NEPA reviews, and allow companies or project developers to conduct their own environmental assessments, the sources said.

The revamp, the Times added, would be a revision of “the rules that guide the implementation of the law” and has the potential to “sharply reduce obstacles to the Keystone XL oil pipeline and other fossil fuel projects that have been stymied when courts ruled that the Trump administration did not properly consider climate change when analyzing the environmental effects of the projects.”

The plan drew outrage from Hartl, who said, “Trump’s gift to the fossil fuel industry and special interests will silence ordinary Americans while giving polluters a free pass to trash the environment, destroy public lands, and kill wildlife.”

The White House hinted at the changes in a statement released January 1 marking the 50th anniversary of NEPA. It said it would unveil a proposal to “address the many concerns my administration has heard from hardworking Americans, small businesses, and state and local officials” regarding the law and would mark a continuation of Trump’s slashing of “burdensome regulations.”

The proposal appears to fulfill an industry wish.