NJ Spotlight News: “Congress Mulls Changes in Permitting Process, Could Mean Lower Electricity Prices”
RFF Fellow Kevin Rennert is quoted in this story about the federal government's appetite for energy permitting reform.
Decades later, those steps have led to measurable environmental improvements. But they’ve also made building equipment to slash emissions more difficult.
“To get things built in this country, if [developers] are going to either use federal lands or take federal funds, in various different forms,” they have to go through NEPA, Kevin Rennert, a fellow and director of the federal climate policy initiative at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan think tank, said in an interview with NJ Spotlight News...
“We have this imperative to address climate change, which requires us to build at a scale that we have not built at before, to basically change the way that we are producing electricity, for example, and even potentially other types of fuels to a low-carbon economy,” Rennert said.
