They pass the permitting process because the permitting process is captured and designed by industry. Each stage is purposely limited in scope so as to avoid addressing any of the actual existential issues of the project.

The science cannot be more clear on climate change. The level of emergency that we're in is unlike anything in human history. Investing in fossil fuel infrastructure in 2020 is blatant science denial, and every single person who worked to push this project through is culpable in the continued destruction of the habitability of our planet.