Do We Need Environmental Permitting Reform for Climate and Housing Projects?

EcoJustice Radio · Jul 3, 2023 · 1h 2m

There is a movement among the business community and their political representatives to remove the regulatory barriers that they argue impede infrastructure projects and vastly inflate their costs. The Debt Ceiling Bill passed to avert a financial crisis earlier this year included a suite of permitting reforms that supposedly would make it easier to green-light clean energy and infrastructure projects, so badly needed to confront the climate crisis. But are the environmental regulations at fault for the slow uptake of say, energy transmission projects? We discuss the impact of the reforms to…