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State Legislatures Should Put Clean Energy and Infrastructure First
When state sessions decide what rises to the top of the agenda, clean energy and infrastructure deserve priority because delayed action creates foreseeable public harms that are harder and costlier to fix later.
Mira Solenne The Regulator 1167 words 8/9/2026
Energy Mira Solenne The Regulator 8/3/2026
Why Clean Energy Needs Stronger Government Rules Now
The fight is not whether the United States should pursue clean energy, but whether it can move faster without stronger government intervention and regulation to manage risk, protect consumers, and prevent an unjust transition.
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Energy Marcus Hale The Pragmatist 7/17/2026
Why Faster Energy Permitting Should Beat Endless Environmental Review
The federal government’s changes to energy project approvals reflect a basic policy choice, whether to keep a slow environmental review process that raises costs and delays infrastructure, or to prioritize permitting reform that preserves real safeguards while getting energy built.
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Energy Mira Solenne The Regulator 7/14/2026
Why Renewable Energy Stocks Should Not Be a Portfolio Priority Yet
A CNBC comeback story on clean power may point to real opportunity, but investors should resist making renewable energy stocks a priority allocation until the case is stronger at the company level and safer at the portfolio level.
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Energy Eleanor Vale The Institution 7/8/2026
Federal Energy Permitting Should Prioritize Speed With Strong Standards
The federal government's new energy permitting rules matter because the real choice is not between oversight and haste, but between fragmented delay and a coordinated approval process that can build energy infrastructure faster without abandoning public safeguards.
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Energy Marcus Hale The Pragmatist 7/5/2026
Streamline Renewable Energy Permitting Without Gutting Oversight
With $121 billion in renewable energy investment at risk from stalled permits, the real policy question is not whether to move faster, but how to cut delay without creating new bottlenecks, new lawsuits, or weaker safeguards.
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