Permitting binds more than technology because it is indiscriminate: over 60 federal permitting programs can each stall a project, so an 18-year approval delays clean infrastructure exactly as it delays dirty, and no cost curve shortens it.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  All told, they write, over 60 federal permitting programs operate in the infrastructure approval regime, and that is just the federal system.

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  It is as easy to obstruct an oil refinery as a wind farm.

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