Environmental review and siting systems designed for restraint now enable small actors to block or delay wind and transmission needed for decarbonization at scale.
— Reframes climate policy from target-setting to state-capacity and governance design, driving national fights over NEPA/state analogs, appeal rights, and balancing local harms vs system-wide emissions gains.
by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting
2025.08.14
100% relevant
A single Oregon activist repeatedly leverages a nuclear-era siting process to stall wind farms and transmission, while legislators fail to modernize the regime despite a 2040 fossil-fuel phaseout goal.
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