BREAKING: Top Senate Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse and Martin Heinrich, ranking members of EPW/ENR committees, say they are cutting off permitting talks in response to Trump's latest attacks on offshore wind. They permitting reform is "dead in the water". Story to come
Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif), a key permitting negotiator, tells me he’ll oppose SPEED Act despite “good reforms” in the bill. “I can’t support it now. We’ve been really clear about what we need” on clean energy protections. “We’ll go to the Senate and try to get them to fix it”
SCOOP w/@kelseytam: Clean Energy industry group @USCleanPower (ACP) is withdrawing support for SPEED Act over changes GOP leadership agreed to w/ hardliners targeting offshore wind. CAO Frank Macchiarola tells us it "eviscerates the permitting certainty provisions." Story to come