Debt Bill’s Modest NEPA Changes Raise Question About Broader Push

Congress is poised to advance a debt limit deal with relatively modest changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) -- including default deadlines for environmental reviews -- though the bill omits GOP attacks on an array of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) clean energy supports as well as the more sweeping NEPA revisions. The bill also lacks any provision to specifically accelerate transmission line permitting, to the chagrin of clean energy backers and environmental groups, prompting early questions about whether...