Peter Cook
@PeterCookBTI
Climate and Energy Analyst at the Breakthrough Institute (he/him)
⚙️ NEW MICROSITE JUST DROPPED ⚙️ Today @TheBTI launched navigatingnepa.com, featuring our analysis and open-source database of over 2000 District-level judicial NEPA opinions.
New report by me and @BTI: The Procedural Hangover: How NEPA Litigation Obstructs Critical Projects NEPA litigation reshapes the process. Agencies pad the record, reports get longer, timelines slip, and projects are not built. Hence, the procedural hangover.
NEPA is widely understood as an impediment to timely, orderly, and cost-effective infrastructure investment and deployment. Explore how NEPA litigation is impacting clean energy, forest management, and much more with our new interactive website: navigatingnepa.com
In our new @TheBTI report, colleagues @PeterCookBTI @wang_seaver and I outline a policy framework and recommend best practices for a critical mineral reserve that would promote market stability and global competitiveness for US advanced energy industries thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…
Timely updates on the CCUS & blue H2 scene that align with my recs for blue fertilizer in Africa: - Chevron announced $5B blue H2 and ammonia plant to nab 45V credits before they expire (enr.com/articles/61038…)
"If the development community is serious about combating hunger by funding fertilizer chemical plants local to SSA, they cannot continue to dogmatically discard petrochemical solutions without giving them serious consideration." Read @RyanAlimento: breakthroughjournal.org/p/sub-saharan-…