national environmental policy

• Eric Biber
• July 21, 2026

Trying to Create Permit Certainty

A new permitting reform bill does a good job of managing tradeoffs for a difficult problem

Last month two Senators proposed another permitting reform bill, the FREEDOM Act.  This is a revised version of a bill that was introduced in the House earlier this year, which I wrote about before.  (And yes, if you are having trouble keeping up with all the permitting reform bills floating around, you are not alone.) …

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