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“One can debate the merits of any of these objectives. But larding already-uncompetitive businesses with crippling new costs to advance completely unrelated social goals is simply at odds with the stated purpose of this law.”

>Clean Air Act permits can take 18 months. National Environmental Policy Act reviews take an average of four and a half years.

I mean, this seems like a point simply made. As someone who has dealt with government bureaucracy WRT developing something, it is indeed a massive disincentive towards building. Maybe that's the whole point, but it seems like government is working against itself here by providing simultaneous incentives and disincentives.

It's Bloomberg. What else would you expect?

Do you think taking almost 5 years to approve environmental permits is a reasonable amount of time?