Underutilized stat ➡️ solar isn’t heavily burdened by NEPA. Only ~15% of large solar farms built between 2010 and 2021 were subject to a NEPA review. Specifics in this study from Resources for the Future: media.rff.org/documents/WP_2…

"This is classic Barrasso-Manchin politics...both of them gave up a lot from what they wanted. I don't think either one of them is thrilled this is a perfect piece of legislation. However, it’s a compromise. That’s the beauty of it...” - Senator John Hickenlooper 🔥

"Clean energy will benefit more than fossil. Activists demanding permitting rules that benefit only their preferred technologies is recipe for political gridlock." Nikki Chiappa and Seaver Wang on Manchin/Barrasso permitting reform leg. thebreakthrough.org/blog/congress-…

Grid Strategies put together a great one-pager on how the transmission provisions in the permitting bill would work:

Some Democrats in the House are still pushing for the worst permitting reform idea of all time instead of supporting the bipartisan permitting reform bill in the Senate, which would actually make permitting easier & reduce emissions on net.

Clean energy projects under NEPA regulations:

The bipartisan permitting reform bill is a huge win for climate. Emissions reductions outweigh emissions increases roughly 10-1 Any environmental group opposing this bill doesn’t actually care about climate change.

"NEPA lawsuits, filed disproportionately by large environmental NGOs, pose a real, sizable, and concerning risk to clean energy development and the future of American decarbonization." Nikki Chiappa's research for Breakthrough journal explains stalls in New England's clean energy

Don't miss this new mini article series from Nikki Chiappa highlighting major clean energy/transmission projects significantly delayed or stalled by NEPA lawsuits. First up, the New England Clean Energy Connect. Delayed by 21 months, cost increase +50%. thebreakthroughjournal.substack.com/p/nepa-nightma…

Want clean energy? Disempower the National Environmental Policy Act. "The most contentious NEPA challenges filed between 2013 and 2022, on average, delayed clean energy projects by just under 4 years. The majority of those lawsuits were filed by a small set of national NGOs who