Some Doubt Push To Speed Transmission, Citing States’ Pipeline Actions

Clean energy experts are clashing about whether to grant federal regulators additional authority to override state opposition to electric transmission projects that are needed to integrate large amounts of renewables onto the grid, with some critics citing states’ prior efforts to block gas pipelines to argue such a move wouldn’t necessarily expedite power projects. “One thing I hear from the natural gas industry is maybe it used to be that federal permitting was a good way to make things faster,...