President Joe Biden’s legacy-making bid to rework the permitting process has run into bipartisan resistance on Capitol Hill.
On Wednesday, a trio of House and Senate lawmakers announced plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s latest revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act’s implementing regulations.
The action, intended to speed up permits as well as take heed of climate change and marginalized communities for large-scale infrastructure projects, could help turn the key on the administration’s build-out of renewable energy across the country.
But Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.) as well as Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) want to ax the regulation, arguing it will slow down permitting instead.
