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[Last week], the Council on Environmental High quality (CEQ) launched remaining guidelines making essential amendments to the Nationwide Environmental Coverage Act (NEPA) and implementing the 2023 Monetary Accountability Act.
Over the past three years the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation (SEIA) submitted quite a few feedback to CEQ on the reforms wanted to enhance the allowing course of for renewable power initiatives on public lands.
Following is a press release from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation (SEIA) on the developments:
“We’re happy to see that the Council on Environmental High quality (CEQ) applied lots of SEIA’s commonsense ideas to each shield the surroundings and make it simpler to construct clear power initiatives on public land.
“These guidelines implement each time and web page limits for environmental evaluations and authorize the companies to take a extra collaborative method to the allowing course of. CEQ additionally codified a protracted overdue Congressional directive to contemplate environmental justice throughout these evaluations, serving to to advance the photo voltaic and storage trade’s efforts to middle fairness and justice in power policymaking selections.
“The foundations also needs to forestall prolonged evaluations for decrease influence infrastructure initiatives, releasing up helpful company sources. It will make it sooner to construct a wide range of initiatives on federal lands from photo voltaic and storage services to new carbon seize ventures.
“The photo voltaic and storage trade has already demonstrated that we will each steadiness dialog efforts and meet the administration’s objective to web site 25 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power on public lands by 2025. We imagine the brand new guidelines will permit us to allow the following 25 GW even sooner with out sacrificing our shared public lands, a win-win for each the photo voltaic and storage trade and the surroundings.”
Press launch from the Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation®.
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