After Manchin failure in senate is permitting reform dead?
leaders have both endorsed permitting reform bills. And while far apart on some details, plenty of common ground remains on the need to speed up a process that can take 10 years to complete - and that's before construction can even begin.
financing, said Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, a Maryland based consulting firm for clean energy companies. She wanted to rewrite the more than 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act -- a non-starter for many Democrats.In a memo circulated earlier this week, GOP leaders criticized the bill's two year deadline for environmental reviews as unenforceable. Andin sighting transmission lines and handed more power to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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