The latest episode of the SPEED melodrama: Senate Democrats put an end to permitting reform discussions just before the holidays after the Trump administration stopped work on 7 GW of offshore wind farms under construction. (Utility Dive)
Lawmakers’ take: “The illegal attacks on fully permitted renewable energy projects must be reversed if there is to be any chance that permitting talks resume,” Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, and Martin Heinrich, D-NM, said in a statement. “There is no path to permitting reform if this administration refuses to follow the law.”