Aidan Mackenzie
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Infrastructure Fellow at @IFP. I post about permitting, geothermal and transit policy
The FREEDOM Act limits revocations AND forces agencies to issue permits. If they miss the set deadlines, sponsors can sue, recover daily fees, and/or ask courts to nominate a contractor to complete the remaining review. See subtitles B, C, and D
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A new permitting bill, the "FREEDOM Act", would stop the ongoing abuse against offshore wind & renewables. FREEDOM creates permitting certainty by setting guardrails on each stage of agency abuse and backs the reform with strong remedies (fines, damages, contractors).
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16 days ago
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Alexander C. Kaufman
18 days ago
New exclusive on a major permitting reform advance:
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Heatmap News
18 days ago
SCOOP:
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has the exclusive on a new bipartisan permitting reform bill that aims to protect tech neutrality — including offshore wind. Read the full story:
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Scoop: A New Bipartisan Permitting Bill Aims to Protect Tech Neutrality
The FREEDOM Act would guard previously-permitted projects — like, say, offshore wind developments — against political whiplash.
https://heatmap.news/politics/freedom-act
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Alon (they/them)
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The report is out, AMA. How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor
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North East Corridor Report
How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor We have most recently updated this report on 04/29/2025. Go to the PDF version (coming soon) Overview Our proposal’s goal is to establish a h...
https://transitcosts.com/north-east-corridor-report/
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DOI would do much better if they took their time to officially update their regs and implement better NEPA procedures. Trying to rush around NEPA using vague authorities is probably just going to result in years of painful court battles
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I'm extremely skeptical of the Department of Interior's attempt at using emergency authorities to speed NEPA reviews up to 28/14 days. Ironically, DOI is relying on an authority that only ever existed in CEQ regs which are now gone... I expect courts will throw this idea out.
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The administration's NEPA reform strategy makes increasingly little sense. -Multiple Executive Orders are directed at CEQ but there's STILL no CEQ Chairman so nothing is happening -Repealing agency NEPA regs with no plan to replace them makes no sense.đź§µ
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CEQ Directs All Agencies To Revoke NEPA Rules, Issue Guidance Instead | InsideEPA.com
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has told federal agencies to rescind their binding rules for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and replace them with nonb...
https://insideepa.com/daily-news/ceq-directs-all-agencies-revoke-nepa-rules-issue-guidance-instead
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The Council on Environmental Quality claims to show reduced permitting timelines. But the data suggests not much has changed. Here's why NEPA data is tricky: đź§µ (1/9)
about 1 year ago
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Arnab Datta
about 1 year ago
Climate advocates might feel hopeless with Pres-elect Trump returning to the WH. They shouldn’t. I wrote about how to make progress for NYT 1. Focus on innovation and industrial strategy 2. Be pragmatic about fossil fuels 3. Expand the interests that gain from decarbonization
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Armand Domalewski
about 1 year ago
it really breaks my brain that people will scream that climate change is an existential crisis but also that a system of endless litigation is good and fine
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Greg Nasif
about 1 year ago
We’re builders. By
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Why it takes a disaster to build fast
If We Can Do It In Baltimore…
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/if-we-can-do-it-in-baltimore
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America can still build fast! …but only after disasters. In my piece for The New Atlantis (now unpaywalled) I look at the Baltimore Bridge rebuild and ask why we can’t build fast all the time. Disaster rebuilds offer some lessons for a better infrastructure process. 🧵 (1/7)
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