Today, NatResources holds highly anticipated legislative hearing on a suite of energy permitting reform bills. It's the first concrete movement on this hot legislative area in the new session and comes after a Democratic proposal from Sen_JoeManchin.
House Republicans are having their first go at energy"permitting reform" of the new Congress, an issue that dominated the waning days of the previous session and remains one of a handful of issues for which there's considerable bipartisan support.
Now, with a majority in the lower chamber, Republicans are pushing solutions of their own, some of which are seeing their second and third lives after being proposed in previous Congresses. The Biden administration rolled back and replaced the Trump-era NEPA regulations with its own prioritizing, which directs agencies to consider direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of a proposed project so as to determine how it will contribute to climate change.
Another bill from Rep. Garret Graves would also amend NEPA and require multiple agencies reviewing a project to get together and deem one among them the"lead agency," a measure meant to speed up the review process. A number of Democrats back permitting reform, a broad term referring to the cutting of red tape to speed the construction of energy infrastructure.
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