NRDC Floats Permitting Options, With Heavy Focus On Executive Action

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is outlining a series of steps it would like the Biden administration to take using existing authority to speed power transmission and related clean energy projects, while also renewing a push for certain transmission-related provisions in a potential legislative permitting package. The group’s advocacy, outlined in a Sept. 6 report , also touches on various other topics, including greater attention to community input and state efforts to reduce siting obstacles for renewable energy projects...