EJ Groups Resist Late House Push To Streamline Energy Permitting

Environmental justice and other progressive groups are renewing their objections to adding energy project permit streamlining language to pending must-pass, end-of-the-year legislation, as House Democrats gear up for debate on a major defense policy bill that reports say could soon include revised permitting provisions. The concerns come as observers note that enactment of such permitting policy would likely depend on a critical mass of House and Senate Republicans backing the effort, given that the issue is splitting Capitol Hill Democrats...