Security Claims Stall Clean‑Energy Projects

Governments can and do invoke national‑security rationales to pause or block renewable infrastructure, turning permitting fights into courtroom and political battles. Those interventions introduce investment risk, delay emissions reductions, and shift control of deployment from planners and regulators to judges and politics. — This frames a new, practical fault line in the energy transition: national‑security rhetoric as a lever to slow or reshape clean‑energy buildout.