White House Floats Hill Permitting Bill Priorities, Touts Executive Steps

May 10, 2023
The White House is floating its priorities for a possible legislative deal on energy project permitting -- including new authority to speed power transmission and a cleanup liability shield for clean energy projects at brownfields -- even as it touts new administrative steps to speed major transmission line deployment needed for clean energy. Permitting delays “are pervasive at every level of government -- federal, state and local,” White House clean energy advisor John Podesta said during a May 10 appearance...


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