Permitting reform is a phrase broad enough to serve two constituencies: those who care about getting things built and those who care about where they are built or not built. Sometimes those groups intersect. Other times, they clash.
Without this reform, we cannot deploy wind and solar fast enough to meet our commitments to the world to cut our emissions 50% by 2030. Commitments that, if kept, will help our kids and grandkids inherit a livable planet.
The Vineyard Wind project off Martha’s Vineyard was expected to be the nation’s first utility-size wind farm at sea, but navigating the politics and pioneering the uncertain regulatory process has proven more difficult than expected.
