Permitting Reform, Property Rights, NIMBYism, & Carbon Removal—w/ Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition

Progressives generally support regulations that protect the environment. But the permitting process has become so complex that it can take five years and 500 pages of documentation to get a project off the ground. And that red tape is holding up the clean energy projects we need to reverse climate change. Chris Barnard is Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition and a regular guest on our sister podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom. On this episode of Reversing Climate Change, Chris joins Ross, Siobhan, and Asa to explain how regulations can prevent us from building climate infrastructure and explore the potential for bipartisan collaboration on permitting reform. Chris discusses how permitting interacts with issues of eminent domain and describes what community engagement looks like in the permitting process. Listen in for Chris’s insight on the regulatory barriers to realizing carbon removal at scale and learn how we might streamline the permitting process without weakening environmental standards. Connect with Nori Purchase Nori Carbon Removals Nori's website Nori on Twitter Check out our other podcast, Carbon Removal Newsroom Carbon Removal Memes on Twitter Carbon Removal Memes on Instagram Resources American Conservation Coalition Carbon Removal Newsroom Parachute on RCC S3EP27 Inflation Reduction Act Senator Manchin’s Permitting Reform Bill National Environmental Policy Act The California Environmental Quality Act' Bootleggers and Baptists Hot Coffee Bureau of Land Management ‘The Top Five Legal Barriers to Carbon Capture and Sequestration in Texas’ in Forbes Overton Window Lil Nas X’s ‘I Will Avenge U Mr. Van Gogh’ Meme