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Senate Permitting Reform Bill: If It Passes, Will It Work?
Every permitting bill promises the same thing: build faster. The harder question is what the trade-offs are, and who bears them.
That question is at the heart of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), the US Senate permitting deal introduced in September by the leaders of the chamber's two energy and environment committees.
A new white paper from the Center on Global Energy Policy finds that the bill would make it meaningfully faster and more predictable to build energy infrastructure of all kinds, especially interstate transmission. But those gains come with a cost…
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