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Permitting reform talks paused after administration halts offshore wind projects, witness says
Summary
An unidentified committee member told the Senate Environment and Public Works panel that recent executive stop-work orders on offshore wind projects and what the speaker called repeated falsehoods by cabinet officials have prompted a pause in bipartisan permitting reform negotiations.
An unidentified member of the Senate Environment and Public Works panel said Wednesday that bipartisan efforts to streamline energy permitting are on hold after an executive-branch campaign the speaker described as unlawful and misleading.
The speaker opened the hearing by urging a ‘‘strong bipartisan permitting reform’’ but said trust has been eroded by what he called the administration’s ‘‘lawless, irrational, and unpredictable’’ actions. He faulted an early executive order that he said failed to define solar or wind as energy and criticized stop-work orders on offshore projects, including Empire Wind and Revolution Wind, as unjustified.
The speaker said courts have rebuked the administration’s actions. He noted that…
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