The Biden administration will activate new permitting rules to speed the buildout of electric vehicle charging stations and promote semiconductor manufacturing—the first use of the powers, a White House official said Tuesday.
The June debt ceiling law amended the National Environmental Policy Act to let federal agencies use decisions made by other agencies for projects deemed not to have a significant effect on the environment, therefore exempting them from more extensive and lengthier reviews.
Both parties have promoted the inter-agency sharing of the decisions, known as categorical exclusions, to speed up projects they favor.
Now, the Department of Transportation will ...
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