A Progressive Take on Permitting Reform: Principles and Policies to

The Climate and Community Project is a Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum that, progressive climate policy think tank that mobilizes a together, are learning from the past and working to network of leading academic and movement redefine the future of the American economy. [...] Mandates the expedited completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP): The law demands the expedited completion of the MVP, designating it a “national interest.” The pipeline is slated to go through the Appalachian region, carrying natural gas 300 miles from the northern part of West Virginia to southern Virginia and crossing 1,146 streams, creeks, rivers, and wetlands. [...] Takeaways: The Lithium Valley Commission is a first step in limiting the environmental harm of the extraction of new transition minerals and ensuring that environmental justice and tribal communities’ visions and concerns are heard in the planning process and benefit from the resources created by these projects. [...] The Willow Project to develop oil and gas on Alaska’s North Slope and the Alaska LNG Project to move natural gas 800 miles from the Alaska North Slope to south-central Alaska for liquefaction and export are just two of the latest examples of tens of billions of dollars committed to fossil fuel infrastructure that will live on for decades. [...] marginalization, and The Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 passed permitting reforms exploitation wrought by the that made changes to NEPA, but it will do little to address the fossil-fueled system, and problems this report identifies as playing the largest role in delaying the clean energy transition, and could even make things to build a far more just and worse.