Following The Cape Wind Project's Road Toward Approval

Law360, New York (August 3, 2016, 3:46 PM EDT) -- From time to time, Congress will enact new laws designed to improve and accelerate the federal permitting process. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the FAST Act of 2015 ("Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act") are illustrative of this concern. However, the challenges that beset the permitting and operation of large-scale energy projects are still quite formidable, as exemplified by the struggles encountered by the proponents of the Cape Wind Energy Project, since the planning for this project began several years ago....

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