The “litigation doom loop” is a huge problem for clean energy deployment.

Solar projects that receive the strictest level of NEPA environmental review have the highest litigation rate:

64%

By contrast, fossil fuel projects only have a 32% litigation rate.

To be clear, we have spent five years studying whether or not it is environmentally permissible to demolish a derelict football stadium surrounded by empty parking lots or whether for some reason it should just stay there forever.

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Insanity.

More abundance!

The modal response to this thread (⤵️) has been 'YIMBYism is doomed.'

I don't think that's right. Here's why:
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I’m all for new tent encampments, but before you build them you should need to engage with the stakeholders in a series of community meetings, have some design review, and ensure that the tents align with the existing character of the community.

This kind of 'permission slip culture' is exactly why we need permitting reform at every level of government

🥳New papers! A cornucopia! (well, 3).🎆

#1: 'What State Housing Policies Do Voters Want? Evidence from a Platform-Choice Experiment' (w/Clayton Nall & Stan Oklobdzija)

written for a JPIPE symposium on political economy of housing

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Maybe the university should give students a taste of the real world by imposing extremely high encampment taxes and forbidding students to change their tents without paying tens of thousands of dollars for an environmental impact study.

Green groups will really be like 'you believe in permitting reform? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, only permitting the good projects' and then not permit the good projects

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keep kristi noem away from him

damn it Claude

Charles Evans Hughes knew what was what.

A small but important thing to make the government work better and improve people’s lives

⁦.Peter Meijer⁩ statement on leaving the Senate race #MISen

We've reviewed hundreds of texts from the weeks after the 2020 election by advisers to Trump's campaign.

The messages show lawyers planning, in detail, how to use false slates of electors to get lawmakers or Vice President Pence to change the outcome. detroitnews.com/story/news/pol…