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Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) have reached an agreement on a bill to speed up the nation’s energy and infrastructure projects after about two years of trying to reach a ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has this week issued an executive order to spare victims of the Los Angeles wildfires from onerous government permitting and review requirements as they rebuild their ...
The Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (S.4753) is a bill in the United States Senate to reform the permitting system for fossil fuel and electric power transmission development. [1] It is one of the several iterations of permitting reform brought forth by the 118th Congress.
As part of the permitting reform negotiations within debt ceiling talks, Democrats saw expanded electrical transmission as essential, while in exchange Republicans desired changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock piece of environmental legislation, beneficial to the fossil fuel industry, such as accelerated permitting ...
On Dec. 17 we got the disappointing word that the Energy Permitting Reform Act (EPRA) of 2024 would not be included in Congress’s final spending package of the year. “Citizens’ Climate Lobby ...
The Big Five is an informal institution of California state government, consisting of the governor, the Assembly speaker, the Assembly minority leader, the Senate president pro tempore, and the Senate minority leader. Historically, members of the Big Five met in private to negotiate California's state government budget.
Permitting reform has been on the agenda for years. Now is the time to make it happen. It’s the best way to unleash America’s full energy potential, benefiting all Americans for decades to come.
It prohibits local government regulations re "vacancy control" [39] in most situations. [40] For the five cities with "vacancy control" in 1995 the Act is phased-in. [41] It situates government contracts with owners about rent charged (e.g., provisions for low income housing), and the effects of a notice of violation, e.g., about health or ...