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In this week\u2019s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Katie McGinty and Jim Connaughton about how to accelerate the permitting process for clean energy projects. McGinty is vice president and chief sustainability and external relations officer at Johnson Controls, and Connaughton is chair of Nautilus Data Technologies and a member of the board of directors at Resources for the Future. McGinty and Connaughton discuss why project delays are a central challenge in the clean energy transition, how clean energy projects can support environmental justice communities, and the types of permitting reforms that can help deploy funding for clean energy that\u2019s available through recent laws such as the Inflation Reduction Act.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cBuilding Cleaner, Faster: Creating Permitting Systems that Enable Decarbonization Infrastructure Deployment\u201d from the Aspen Institute, by James L. Connaughton, Katie McGinty, Brent Alderfer, Roger Ballentine, Donnel Baird, Dan Esty, Roger Martella, Manisha Patel, Nancy Pfund, Rich Powell, Bill Ritter, Emily Schapira, and Michael Skelly; https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/building-cleaner-faster-report/\n\n\u201cTermination Shock\u201d by Neal Stephenson; https://www.harpercollins.com/products/termination-shock-neal-stephenson\n\nPrinceton faculty member Jesse Jenkins; https://cpree.princeton.edu/people/jesse-jenkins\n\nDonnel Baird and BlocPower; https://www.blocpower.io/