Pass Bipartisan Permitting Reform
Learn why passing bipartisan permitting reform is critical to unleashing American energy.
Currently, permitting takes far too long and delays attributed to permitting timelines obstruct the development of clean energy. This fact sheet highlights not only why commonsense reform to permitting is crucial to unlocking clean energy’s potential but also offers six concrete recommendations on how policymakers can reform the process while maintaining bedrock environmental protections.
- For an energy project, the average review timeline today is 4.5 years.
- For transmission projects, the average is 6.5 years—and often can take over 10 years.
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