Former EPA Official’s NEPA ‘Reboot’ Embraces AI, Clean Air Act Revisions

Former Biden EPA official Marc Levitt is calling for a “reboot” of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that includes embracing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies to speed permitting decisions and revising the Clean Air Act’s (CAA) review requirements to “improve accountability and transparency.” “Rebooting NEPA means returning the law to its originally intended purpose: as a tool for environmentally-informed infrastructure planning, and for public engagement,” writes Breakthrough Institute director of environmental regulatory reform Levitt in...