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As the state tries to find ways to meet its pledge of a carbon-free electric grid by 2040, a push to streamline the state's permitting system for renewable energy projects and transmission lines is gaining momentum ahead of the legislative session that begins in mid-February. While an effort to nix a contentious rule that can limit solar development on what's known as "prime farmland" has .