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Touting prospects for federal permitting reform

Editors at National Review Online promote one good way to make the federal government better. For decades, the federal government’s byzantine and overlapping permitting regimes for...

Improving permitting reform

I’ve written a bunch about the Senate’s permitting reform bill.  My basic takeaway is that I want this bill to pass, but that there are some serious flaws in the bill, particularly...

Permitting Reform Bill: NEPA Remedies

To me the most important change in environmental law from the permitting reform bill is the effort to restrict remedies for NEPA violations.  I’ve written before about why I think...

Permitting Wars

The permitting reform bill now being considered in the Senate has provoked fairly vicious fights between “abundance” advocates and at least some environmental groups.  I think that...

Senate Releases Bipartisan Permitting Reform Bill Negotiated with the White House

A bipartisan group of lawmakers Sept. 30 released long-awaited legislation that congressional leaders hope to pass shortly after the midterm elections, following the House-passed S...

Two reforms to improve the American government

Yuval Levin offers Atlantic readers ideas for improving the way the American government functions. Phases of intense dysfunction and frustration in American public life have tended...

Focusing on federal permitting reform

Jeff Rosen highlights one effective way to boost the American economy. Back in 1995, President Bill Clinton told an audience gathered for an event in Washington, D.C.: “We need a G...

Senate Introduces Landmark Permitting Reform Bill

Following the midterm elections, the Senate is expected to consider major NAHB-backed permitting reform legislation that would lower development costs, increase housing supply and...

Unpacking the Senate Permitting Reform Bill: Permit Certainty

This post continues my review of the provisions of the Senate Permitting Reform Bill, focusing on the permit certainty provisions in Title IV.  My introduction to the coverage of t...

The Senate wants to pass a permitting reform bill. So what’s the holdup?

​This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter. Senators are looking toward the Capitol doors as they prepare to head home and campa...

Senate Permitting Reform Would Reshape NEPA Review and Could Spur Changes to NRC Procedures

The Senate’s Surprisingly Populist Permitting Reform Deal

Court reform is liberal-coded nowadays. But it shouldn’t be.

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.In Jan. 2023, a PDF att...

ACP welcomes US permitting reforms

New legislation includes overhauls to environmental and judicial review

How to Deconstruct Federal Regulation

I want to write separately to emphasize how sweeping the permit certainty provisions of Section 1401 of the permitting reform bill likely are.  Again, these are provisions that app...

Pre-election permitting reform deal stalled in Senate for now

CHARLESTON – A bipartisan deal being negotiated by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito for a permitting reform package to be passed before the November general election appears to be st...

Unpacking the Senate Permitting Reform Bill: Disparate Treatment for Permits

This post continues my review of the provisions of the Senate Permitting Reform Bill, focusing on the disparate treatment permit provisions in Title IV.  My introduction to the cov...

Suffrage Control: Lindsay Clancy Case Reveals Need for Common-Sense Constitutional Reform

Urging Supreme Court Reform

University of Professor Law Professor, Kate Shaw, who co-hosts the lively, trenchant podcast, Strict Scrutiny, this week penned an op-ed in the NYTimes offering a critique of the S...

A quick overview of the Senate permitting reform bill

The bipartisan permitting reform bill – at least the Senate version – is out.  You can see it here.  My initial take on the bill is below, and I hope to do some more detailed exami...

Senate Negotiators Reach Agreement on Permitting Reform Text

Go-To Guide: Proposed legislation would make significant reforms to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and federal environmental and energy project permitting, repres...