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# Central Environmental Authority rarely rejects projects post their environmental assessment
- URL: https://www.examiner.media/very-few-projects-sent-for-environmental-assessment-are-actually-rejected/
- Published: 2026-01-23T07:07:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-05T13:12:16.000Z
- Author: The Examiner
- Tags: chart, maintag-Chart, Week-03-2026

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Source: Central Environmental Authority Annual Reports

The law requires that some projects conduct environmental studies, either an IEE or a lengthier EIA, before starting work. Based on these studies the Central Environmental Authority will either approve or reject a project. But rejections are rare. Are most proposed projects actually environmentally sound or are the studies misleading? Or does the authority knowingly approve bad projects?

*Note: the data only reflects approvals and rejections of EIAs and IEEs. It does not include projects that are still pending a decision. EIA data for 2019 is not available, but each year IEE data is the vast majority anyway.*