Opinion: Environmentalists are suing us out of addressing climate change
Despite a bipartisan permitting bill sailing through committee last month, a coalition of extreme environmental groups is digging in its heels to preserve our labyrinth of regulations preventing American energy dominance.
For those of us working in the environmental space, this isn’t a surprise. Even though many environmental leaders in the Senate and climate-focused environmental groups support the bill, extreme environmental groups are once again opposing reforms needed to build new energy infrastructure. Their outdated approach ignores the fact that addressing climate change and meeting our energy demands will require rapidly building out clean-energy infrastructure.
The Manchin-Barrasso proposal is the result of more than a year of bipartisan negotiations, which is clearly demonstrated through the content of the bill. A truly all-of-the-above approach, this bill would ease permitting processes for both clean and traditional energy sources, but clean energy advocates agree that the climate benefits far outweigh any fossil fuel compromises.
Moreover, recent data shows the effect that our current permitting process is having on our ability to build any kind of energy project. Specifically, a report by the pro-growth environmentalists at The Breakthrough Institute breaks down how frivolous lawsuits are delaying the deployment of critical projects that would lower emissions and conserve our environment.
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