A 'Marker' For Streamlining Energy Permits

The Institute for Energy Research (IER) – a Washington, DC-based think tank that advocates a hands-off government approach to energy policy – is circulating model legislation that offers a litany of proposals to streamline and accelerate permitting for oil, gas, and renewable energy projects by scaling back numerous EPA and other federal agency authorities. While many of the provisions in the bill appear unlikely to fly on Capitol Hill or at White House, the package could provide fodder for GOP...