WASHINGTON – Today, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) sent a letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) advocating for passage of S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024. The letter comes a day before the legislation is set for markup before the Committee.
“S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, provides pragmatic policy solutions that seek to expedite permitting processes, reduce onerous regulations and mitigate serial litigation from extreme interest groups,” wrote CRES President Heather Reams in the letter. “While a compromise in nature, the bipartisan legislation being considered at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is a meaningful step toward fixing many dysfunctional processes that are negatively impacting our ability to deploy critical energy projects across the nation. CRES looks forward to working together to advance permitting reforms that allow the United States to improve energy independence, reduce emissions and deploy clean energy.”
Read the full letter HERE.
CRES has actively pushed for meaningful, durable permitting reform to accelerate clean energy development in the United States and endorsed the bipartisan legislation when it was introduced:
“Clean energy development in the United States has been crippled by burdensome federal permitting processes, onerous regulations and serial litigation from extreme interest groups,” said Reams in a statement of support for the bill’s introduction. “CRES applauds Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) for continuing to pound the drum on the importance of permitting reform and for introducing the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024. This bipartisan package promises to address many of the bottlenecks U.S. energy developers are facing as they work to build, deploy and expand clean, affordable, reliable American-made energy across the country.”