BAAJA
Podesta Is Right
Permitting reform bill asymmetrically makes it easier to grant permits than revoke them. That could have sweeping consequences.
At the end of the last week, these comments from John Podesta, a major Democratic Party policy operative, got some attention. He called the permitting reform bill a “loaded howitzer” in the hands of President Trump, should it be enacted as it is currently written. In particular, Podesta argued that the permitting certainty provisions would …
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CONTINUE READINGNEPA Remedies Revisited
Guest contributor Justin Pidot writes that the permitting bill known as BAAJA would end judicial review of most NEPA claims — but it sure is hard to figure that out.
Guest contributor Justin Pidot is co-director of the environmental law program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Eric Biber’s recent posts have done a terrific job providing an overview of many of the Senate permitting bill’s provisions. I want to revisit the issue of NEPA remedies he discussed here, …
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