PERMITTING PUSH: Permitting reform may just have a glimmer of hope to pass in the lame duck, and the groups pushing for it aren’t going to let the opportunity pass by without a fight.
Grid Action, the political affiliate to Americans for a Clean Energy Grid, and the Conservative Energy Network are flying in around 50 people this week to meet with more than three dozen Democratic and Republican offices on permitting, including leadership in both chambers. The attendees include representatives from the utility and clean energy industries, transmission developers, labor groups and environmental organizations.
The energy security think tank SAFE is also bringing in the big guns to urge passage of the permitting compromise from Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Members of its Energy Security Leadership Council, made up of retired four-star generals and business leaders, will be on the Hill today and Wednesday to promote the bill, which they wrote in a letter would be “vital to our national security.”
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