Progressives generally support regulations that protect the environment.
\nBut the permitting process has become so complex that it can take five years and 500 pages of documentation to get a project off the ground.
\nAnd that red tape is holding up the clean energy projects we need to reverse climate change.
\nChris Barnard is Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition and a regular guest on our sister podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom.
\nOn this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Chris joins Ross, Siobhan, and Asa to explain how regulations can prevent us from building climate infrastructure and explore the potential for bipartisan collaboration on permitting reform.
\nChris discusses how permitting interacts with issues of eminent domain and describes what community engagement looks like in the permitting process.
\nListen in for Chris\u2019s insight on the regulatory barriers to realizing carbon removal at scale and learn how we might streamline the permitting process without weakening environmental standards.
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\nResources
\nAmerican Conservation Coalition
\n\n\n\nSenator Manchin\u2019s Permitting Reform Bill
\nNational Environmental Policy Act
\nThe California Environmental Quality Act'
\n\n\n\n\u2018The Top Five Legal Barriers to Carbon Capture and Sequestration in Texas\u2019 in Forbes
\n\nLil Nas X\u2019s \u2018I Will Avenge U Mr. Van Gogh\u2019 Meme
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