As the leader continues to preserve his pledge to “drill, baby, drill,” the Trump White House is considering overhauling the national approval process for new power projects.
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The White House released a new report last week that revealed Donald Trump’s plan to reform the slow, cumbersome, and unnecessaryly time-consuming national method to approve system and energy development. Moving away from mountains of paperwork and toward electric techniques is one step in the process. Federal authorities will also be required to disclose their deadlines for granting permits for the electricity projects, making it easier for bureaucrats to be held responsible and transparent.
The Trump presidency is attempting to rebuild our network and system while ensuring American energy dominance and independence, while the Biden administration, which has a reputation for being politically correct, spent tens of billions of dollars on terrible, ineffective, and constantly dangerous “green” energy projects.
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From the Free Beacon:
The steps will have an effect on everything from highway and railroad jobs to pipeline jobs, clean energy growth, and mining projects, according to Thomas Shedd, a senior official at the General Services Administration. The Biden administration, in contrast, sought to add more demands for permitting such jobs.
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The White House Council on Environmental Quality’s chief of staff, Katherine Scarlett, also emphasized the need for shorter timeframes. The Trump administration is “working hard to replace outdated technology with effective, quicker solutions” by putting forth” the Trump administration is working hard to apply innovation-driven environmental review and permitting reforms to remove unneeded delays that hampered the growth of the U.S. economy.
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Doug Burgum, the Interior Secretary, has also spoken out on this subject. He argued that we must “innovate more quickly than our global competitors” while drilling more, mapping more, mining more, and building more.
The Free Beacon stated:
Overall, federal agencies take two to three years on average to finish environmental reviews, according to , federal data. And in many cases, reviews can drag on for more than four years, some even putting in more than a decade. Environmental reviews frequently involve a number of distinct federal agencies, which can lead to delays and backlogs.
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One Idaho rare-earth mining project, which is crucial for national security and assisting us in breaking our ties with tyrannical Communist China, waited 14 years for permits from five organizations. The size, scope, and inefficiency of our modern federal bureaucracy would have caused the Founding Fathers to have heart attacks.
Due to lobbying from powerful climate groups, Congress has wasted too much time on inaction. Another reason why the Trump administration’s efforts to upgrade our energy infrastructure and reserves are crucial and timely.
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