The CEQ’s landmark report omitted septic and energy costs of suburbs

Evidence

The CEQ’s accounting was incomplete. The report did not mention the pollution caused by septic tanks, for example, or the energy inefficiency of tract-house design. Yet the CEQ analysis clearly suggested that the problem of land use demanded attention. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 926

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Pays off chapters 33-34 (septic pollution to federal water law) and 21-24 (energy-wasteful housing) by noting these costs were missing from the national summary — a direct callback to the book’s own earlier arguments.