WASHINGTON— Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today for scrapping decades-old rules protecting Americans’ right to participate in environmental reviews for logging, mining, drilling, road construction and other industrial projects on their public lands. Environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, one of the nation’s bedrock environmental laws, are often communities’ only way to obtain information and provide input into the thousands of projects up for approval each year on public lands. “Trump is taking a wrecking ball to public lands so his industry cronies can make a quick buck, but we’re pushing back and demanding a voice for the American people,” said Wendy Park, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The National Environmental Policy Act is what keeps the public in the loop and lets people speak up when destructive projects threaten our backyards. Cutting the public out locks big decisions away in bureaucratic backrooms.”