Experts Warn Of High Uncertainty For GHG Analysis Of Senate Permit Bill

Heated debate over the greenhouse gas implications of a bipartisan permit streamlining plan from top Senate energy committee lawmakers is prompting warnings that pending efforts to quantify such effects would rely on uncertain projections, even as supporters maintain the bill’s climate benefits will broadly outweigh carbon emission increases. Such analysis is an important component of efforts to convince environmental groups and Hill allies skeptical or opposed to the permitting proposal that the plan is worth supporting, with backers touting it...