The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a package of permitting bills, headlined by the SPEED Act that seeks to speed up permit processing and limit litigation.

Both parties have members working on permitting legislation, but the shutdown and the Trump administration's actions against clean energy projects make actual legislation a tough lift for now.

Speakers at ACORE’s annual Grid Forum weren’t afraid to use strong words on the ineffectiveness of the U.S. permitting system but were bullish that it’s fixable.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is closing in on a gas-for-coal swap at its Cumberland plant after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected environmental groups’ arguments against FERC’s environmental review.

The bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus introduced a framework it hopes can lead to permitting legislation this session.

A House Natural Resources Committee hearing on permitting legislation highlighted how split the parties are, even on an issue where key parts of both their coalitions support action.

Permitting reform legislation is starting to move through Congress, with a key House committee holding a hearing and supporters lobbying legislators, though actually passing a bill is tough in any political climate.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proudly told NARUC attendees the agency’s proposed rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of the country.”

FERC changed its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act in compliance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy."

The D.C. Circuit rejected an appeal of FERC's approval of two pipelines in Louisiana tied to a planned LNG site.