Government agencies can help to keep an economy growing or to boost certain types of economic development by, for example, building or expanding a major highway through an undeveloped area. Proponents...

Government agencies can help to keep an economy growing or to boost certain types of economic development by, for example, building or expanding a major highway through an undeveloped area. Proponents of such development have argued that requiring environmental impact statements for these projects interferes with efforts to help the economy. Do you agree? Is this a problem? Why or why not?