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Not really. Thats mostly what that act is used for, dragging out change and protecting the status quo.

• kmeisthax 3y ago
  Environmental review lawsuits have gotten so insane that even recommendations for decarbonization admit that we can't actually build all the infrastructure we need for renewables because it'll get sued to death by NIMBYs cosplaying as environmentalists.
  • snapplebobapple 3y ago
    Most of the first world hasgone insane on the environmental front. The kinds of projects that will get approved need to be relatively easily forecastable with a tight cost and time ballpark for the world to function efficiently and environmental lawsuits have utterly derailed that. Theres a healthy balance between utterly laissez faure and the status quo that we need to get back to, ideally withoyt the massive overshoot to the other side of reasonably correct.
    • kmeisthax 3y ago
      The solution is to have a prior regulatory review that cuts off all the bullshit lawsuits at the knees. Say, "if the EPA says this project is environmentally good, you can't get an injunction on the project, you have to sue the EPA first." Bureaucracy is the sort of thing you can plan for. You can't plan for lawsuits.