There is enough money to get started on real climate action. But what we don’t have is time, write Senator Angus King and Representative Scott Peters
our grid capacity over the next 30 years equaling 200,000 miles of new transmission. Over the last decade, we’ve built about 1,800 miles per year, and only 386 miles in 2021. In the U.S., it takes more than ten years to complete a transmission line. South America has constructed nearly eight times as much transmission in the same period; Europe has constructed 15 times as much.
In the 1970s, our environmental priority was to stop dirty, destructive projects. This led to the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act to require public input and to ensure federal agencies assess the environmental impacts of proposed Federal projects before making decisions. Lawsuits can drag projects out for more than a decade, and the simple threat of litigation can prevent new projects, including environmentally friendly ones like commuter rail or solar power.
Those of us who believe climate change is the gravest threat we face must rethink slow process requirements that can needlessly slow our transition away from dirty fuels. We need better ways to get public input and assess true environmental justice impacts of projects, ways that are more efficient and effective than years of administrative and judicial processes.
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