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Highlights
The Biden Administration in its first 90 days has clearly and
dramatically articulated a commitment to the issue of environmental
justice.
The actions of the White House and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) are significant in their own right, and
point to programmatic, regulatory and budget initiatives likely to
emerge over the coming months and years.
This Holland & Knight alert is the first of several status
updates on environmental justice (EJ) in the Biden Administration.
It identifies early actions of the administration that are not only
significant in their own right but point to programmatic,
regulatory and budget initiatives likely to emerge over the coming
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House Republicans Introduce NEPA Reform Bill
Rep. Sam Graves (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg News)
Republicans on the transportation panel in the U.S. House of Representatives recently introduced a bill designed to streamline aspects of the federal environmental permitting process.
The Building United States Infrastructure Through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews, or BUILDER, Act would aim to codify Trump-era environmental provisions that have been criticized by congressional Democrats.
Specifically, the bill would outline the functions of federal, state, tribal and local agencies during environmental reviews. It would call for proceeding with environmental scrutiny while seeking to minimize delays, and it would ensure practical project review timelines.
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With the unexpected but slim Democratic Senate majority in the wake of two wins in Georgia, President-elect Joseph Biden and Congressional Democrats have new opportunities to enact pro-climate energy and environmental policy. While it’s still unlikely that we will see sweeping stand-alone climate change legislation, we can expect to see targeted approaches to rollback Trump-era rules, further incentivize and encourage renewable energy development, restrict fossil fuel production on public lands, modernize the electric grid to handle renewable power sources and potentially put a price on carbon emissions.