1. Permitting is not dead
The state of permitting reform is very much alive, despite headlines this week following Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s (D-NY) comments that a permitting reform deal would be ‘virtually impossible.’
Here’s what top House Natural Resources Committee Republicans had to say:
- Permitting is still in play: “We don’t view this issue as done at all. We made some great strides forward with last year’s permitting reforms signed into law, but there is a lot of work still to come. We look forward to continuing this policy work, both in the remainder of this Congress and beyond.”
What’s clear: The only thing that is ‘virtually impossible’ would be to meet rapidly growing energy demand with new clean energy development without modernizing the permitting regime.
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