Elan Sykes, Energy Policy Analyst at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest-ever investment into clean energy technology, into law.
“The Inflation Reduction Act is a historic inflection point in America’s progress toward clean energy investment, and decarbonization. This legislation creates opportunities for working-class families across the country through its monumental investment in manufacturing, working to lower energy costs for all Americans during a time of record inflation. However, there is much more work to be done.
“Maximizing the benefits of the IRA will require Congress and the Biden Administration to reduce barriers to deployment in the federal permitting process, expand secure supply chains domestically and in partnership with global allies, and increase the skilled clean energy workforce going forward. PPI calls on the Biden Administration and both parties in Congress to work pragmatically to secure a cleaner, brighter future for American Energy.”
Sykes, along with Paul Bledsoe, Strategic Advisor at PPI, recently released a report on a new ambitious approach to permitting reform. The report proposes a fundamental change to the permitting process by utilizing new analytics, scoping, and mapping technologies that can provide federal agencies and regulators the tools they need to comprehensively approve large batches of projects together, instead of individually reviewing projects.
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