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[Last week], the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released final rules making important amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and implementing the 2023 Financial Responsibility Act.
Over the last three years the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) submitted numerous comments to CEQ on the reforms needed to improve the permitting process for renewable energy projects on public lands.
Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) on the developments:
“We are pleased to see that the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) implemented many of SEIA’s common-sense suggestions to both protect the environment and make it easier to build clean energy projects on public land.
“These rules…
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