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Senators outline future of permitting talks (opens the original)
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After failing to secure a long elusive deal this week on easing approvals for all kinds of energy projects, Senate negotiators and an ideologically diverse army of lobbyists are eyeing September as a new deadline. Major legislation usually doesn’t get done during an election year, but top lawmakers on both sides insist permitting reform can get done, even if there’s grumbling about the Trump administration’s actions against wind and solar. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chair of the Enviro
It’s official: Permitting deal won’t happen this week (opens the original)
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Senate negotiators are punting their target — again — on reaching a long-elusive bipartisan energy permitting overhaul, confirming talks will drag out beyond the August recess and into the heart of midterm election campaign season. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, told POLITICO that negotiators are aiming to strike a deal in September, when the upper chamber will return from a planned five-week recess. Whitehouse was emerging from a
Q&A: Tina Smith talks IRA, permitting and working with Manchin (opens the original)
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Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith, who played a leading role in shaping Democrats’ trademark 2022 climate law, was talking about energy affordability before it became a buzzword. Now, Smith is advising Democrats on lessons learned from their struggles selling and implementing the Inflation Reduction Act as senators negotiate with Republicans on permitting. “I wanted to change the conversation around clean energy and climate from the doom-and-gloom ‘We’re all going to die, the planet is going to burn’ to
Trump expected to headline critical minerals event Friday (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump is expected to meet with mining executives at a public event at the State Department on Friday to tout his administration’s efforts to expand critical minerals supplies, according to four people familiar with the planning. The meeting comes as the Trump administration has made wresting away from China critical minerals supply chains a key priority. Over the last year, it has announced massive deals to take equity stakes in minerals companies and a separate $12 billion stoc
Permitting deal may come after recess. Negotiators say that’s OK. (opens the original)
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Negotiations on a long-elusive bipartisan energy permitting overhaul are likely to drag out beyond the August recess and into the heart of midterm election campaign season, when lawmakers would face daunting political hurdles to get a bill over the finish line. In the latest episode of the POLITICO Energy podcast, Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) argued permitting reform would still be viable this Congress even if negotiators fail to strike a deal by th
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