President Joe Biden’s administration will seek to hasten construction of roads, bridges, wind farms, and more by tweaking the federal review process for environmental and other permits, administration officials said Tuesday.
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Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo heads to the Hill today, and she's bracing herself for a grilling on the department's contentious probe into solar equipment imports from Southeast Asia.
This move reverses changes made by the Trump administration, which loosened the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in 2020 in order to accelerate projects by shortening the time used to gather environmental information and community input. According to Construction Dive, construction.