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On Permitting Reform, More Later Beats Less Sooner

by E. Calvin Beisner

December 16, 2024

The Cornwall Alliance has joined 25 other free-market and conservative organizations in issuing an open letter urging United States Senators and Representatives to delay legislation on permitting reform until after the new Congress is seated in January.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute, which produced the letter, issued this press release December 13, 2024:

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and 25 free market and conservative groups sent a letter to Congress urging Senators and Representatives to wait until the 119th Congress to address permitting reform rather than rushing it in the lame duck session.

The groups write:

The undersigned organizations strongly believe that our nation needs across-the-board federal permitting reform. This requires amending the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as well as the many environmental statutes with permitting requirements, such as the Clean Water Act.

We write this letter though to strongly urge you to address permitting reform next year, not in the lame duck. Recent reports of permitting and transmission legislation gaining momentum this year are concerning.

…

The transmission policies in bills such as the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 (S. 4753) would create these problems, as well as increase the federal role over transmission policy and hurt consumers. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association has warned that the bill in its current form “would greatly expand federal control over co-ops, subjecting them to unacceptable regulation and driving up costs for consumers.”

Republicans should be trying to dismantle the Green New Deal, not enabling it, yet misguided transmission policy would do just that.

It is generally inadvisable to rush any major legislation, especially during a lame duck session. Further, it makes no sense for Republicans to move forward with legislation now when next year they will control the House, the Senate, and the White House.

Signatories to the CEI letter include American Commitment, the American Energy Alliance, the American Energy Institute, the American Lands Council, Americans for Limited Government, Caesar Rodney Institute, Center for Individual Freedom, Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Heartland Institute, Institute for Liberty, John Locke Foundation, Power the Future, Project 21 Black Leadership Network, and Truth in Energy and Climate.

Read the whole letter on CEI.org.

Two articles discussing the issue are James Broughel in Forbes, Unpacking The Pros And Cons Of The Energy Permitting Reform Act Of 2024, and Daren Bakst on CEI’s website, Republicans shouldn’t do anything lame in the lame duck.

Image created using OpenAI’s Dall-E.

Dated: December 16, 2024


Filed Under: Bridging Humanity and the Environment, Climate & Energy, Climate Consensus, Climate Policy, Climate refugees, Energy Options, Uncategorized

About E. Calvin Beisner

Dr. Beisner is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance; former Associate Professor of Historical Theology & Social Ethics, at Knox Theological Seminary, and of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Covenant College; and author of “Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate” and “Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future.”

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