As the Biden administration pushes to revive the US semiconductor industry, lawmakers want to exempt new factories from a bedrock environmental law.
Lawmakers’ push to revive US chip manufacturing has triggered new concerns about pollution regulation, inadvertently subjecting semiconductor factories to federal environmental review for the first time. But while a bipartisan bill would exempt the factories to support a still-struggling American industry, some environmental advocates worry it could weaken the nation’s bedrock environmental law. Since the 1990s, semiconductor manufacturing has shifted from the US to Asia.
a cornerstone for environmental protections in the US and one of the key tools residents have to oppose projects that might impact them. “ provides often the only opportunity for public input on these kinds of decisions when taxpayer dollars are at stake, and when community health is at stake,” says Stephen Schima, a senior legislative counsel for the environmental law organization Earthjustice. Dozens of toxic superfund sites are an ugly legacy of the last US semiconductor boom.
review, it’s not allowing all of the litigation at every step of the process by private citizens,” says Alexander Kersten, deputy director and a fellow of the Renewing American Innovation Project at think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies . The US can’t afford these extra steps if it wants to compete with other countries where it’s become cheaper to make semiconductors, some proponents of the bill say.
isn’t the only or even primary cause of project delays. They point to a lack of staffing or limited funding at federal agencies — problems that are outside of the scope of is necessary at all. “It’s sort of like looking for a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist … it’s, you know, scapegoating
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