Commentary: How California can remove the hurdles delaying the state’s clean energy future

Commentary: How California can remove the hurdles delaying the state’s clean energy future

Red tape has become an unwitting accomplice to climate change.

How California can remove the hurdles delaying the state’s clean energy future

Red tape has become an unwitting accomplice to climate change. Too often, clean energy projects needed to end our carbon dependence and protect our environment become bogged down by permitting and legal quagmires. This must end. This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several infrastructure-streamlining bills out of a package of measures he had proposed in May to fast-track water, transportation and clean energy projects by reforming the state’s cum…