We at CCL have been advocating for Congress to implement clean energy permitting reform for nearly two years. Research has shown that if we don’t start building clean energy infrastructure faster, we will only achieve about half of the potential climate pollution reductions from the policies we’ve already passed, like the Inflation Reduction Act.
Recently, Senators Manchin and Barrasso introduced the bipartisan Energy Permitting Reform Act (S.4753) to try and address this problem. The bill includes provisions to speed up the permitting and deployment of a range of energy infrastructure, including clean energy and some fossil fuel projects.
Use our online tool to write to your members of Congress asking them to support this bill.
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/get-loud-take-action/permitting-reform/
For more information on the bill, see this CCL Blog Post on new projections of the impacts of the bill. This report from an all-star team of highly-respected, expert energy modelers about the potential impact of this bill found that the Energy Permitting Reform Act will cut U.S. climate pollution, and potentially by quite a lot.
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