In the spirit of the current system rewarding those who seek to delay rather than those who seek to build, litigation under NEPA has become the favored tool of those who seek to indefinitely delay projects through procedural lawsuits.
Bruce Westerman: “In the spirit of the current system rewarding those who seek to delay rather than those who seek to build, litigation…”
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Critiques the use of litigation to delay energy projects.
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