Interior Secretary Burgum’s New Order Risks Choking America’s Renewable Energy Future
The Interior Department’s new directive demanding personal approval from Secretary Doug Burgum for all solar and wind projects is less oversight and more obstruction, undermining energy independence and driving up costs for hardworking Americans.
In a move that echoes the all-too-familiar pattern of bureaucratic bottlenecks stalling America’s energy progress, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum now requires personal approval for every solar and wind project on federal lands and waters. Ostensibly an effort to ensure "thorough and deliberative" review, this new order is in reality a thinly veiled attempt to strangle renewable energy growth under layers of red tape—jeopardizing national sovereignty over our own energy future.Is This Enhanced Oversight or Political Obstruction?The Interior Department claims the directive will end “preferential treatment” given to what it calls “subsidy-dependent” clean-energy sources. But what it really signals is Washington...
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