Tony Dutzik

Assoc. Director and Sr. Policy Analyst, Frontier Group, part of @TPINNetwork. Transport, energy and climate policy, mostly.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

Our 8th annual State of Renewable Energy dashboard w/@EnvAm is live! Check out how your state ranks in adoption of wind, solar, electric vehicles and more. https://t.co/QoeaG0WhmF

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Corey_Leander They can take a year to issue a permit, then 60 days, THEN a developer can sue. Then that gets litigated. And Trump’s been slow walking permits he’s been court ordered to issue. It’s not going to happen.

And you can look up what CATF does.

Have a good evening!

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

I hope my BAAJA-backing clean energy friends realize that you've just hitched our collective cause to the Trump-era ramp up of extractive activity on public lands that many people (for good reason) are hopping mad about. https://t.co/qM7tUw50Zo

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Corey_Leander 1) Carte blanche for Oking new extraction on public lands w/o subsequent recourse;
2) look at the timelines in 1402, the Trump admin’s history and this article and argue that they won’t be able to run out the clock on Trumps term while still blocking wind https://t.co/9ANOcRhuNl

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Corey_Leander No. But the bill would essentially give Trump carte blanche. And with the admin's ambitions to withdraw national monuments, repeal the roadless rule, etc., the scope of *where* extraction can happen is expanding into many places formerly protected.

[zombiewells @zombiewellz]

Update from the latest leaking zombie well at the Pecos River.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

(meant "bulletin board material", but billboard material, too)

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

You've put people who vouch for clean energy's consistency with conservation values in an impossible position and provided billboard material for anti-renewables activists everywhere.

If you want to talk trade-offs, these are trade-offs.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

Letter from state AGs on BAAJA highlights attacks on state-federal partnership on clean water, potential undermining of sound science in Endangered Species decision-making, continued problems w/permit certainty and more.
https://t.co/FGWtykoxsB

[Patrick Donnelly @bitterwaterblue]

It may be distasteful, but litigation is the enforcement mechanism for environmental laws, & vacatur is the ultimate remedy. Litigation exists to keep the government honest in permitting. If they break the law, the project gets put on hold while they fix it. Makes sense. #BAJAA

[jae holzman @jaeporeon]

Huh. Patriots owner Bob Kraft's company is trying to build a 900MW data center in Massachusetts https://t.co/pNEBSpXxuE

[Jan Dutkiewicz @jan_dutkiewicz]

Put slightly differently: We already have abundance in agriculture. The problem is that abundance comes with a lot of externalities caused by very permissive and lax regulation (i.e. "agricultural exceptionalism"). There is a lesson here for the abundance crowd.

[Abbie Dillen @AbbieDillen]

As BAAJA moves toward the Senate floor, it's essential to be clear about what the manager's amendment improved and what core problems remain. Here's a first round of analysis from @Earthjustice covering key issues, including project certainty and NHPA. (https://t.co/9axornmVv5).

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes This was the origin of John Podesta's "loaded Howitzer" remark. If you're comfortable with that situation, OK, but I'm not. https://t.co/PKtll5krPH

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

Can we dispense with the fiction that BAAJA is going to *make* Trump do anything on wind permitting? He'll stonewall permits, developers will sue under disparate impact (which can't begin for 180 days), that'll get litigated, and before you know it it will be 1/20/29

[Elan Sykes @Elan_Sykes]

The bill would fix this. Can’t believe we’re stuck with him for 2 more years though.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes "Substantive law" provides the president an awful lot of leeway over management of public lands and waters and NEPA is the only thing forcing the fed govt to be transparent about the impacts of its actions on the environment. Effectively repealing it has consequences.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes I'm not talking about oil and gas specifically. Section 1401 applies to *any* federal permit, not just for energy projects - logging, mining, deep seabed mining, data centers, anything. It'll be a two-year-long free for all and none of it is likely to be walked back.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes They're already slowwalking permits that they're under court order to approve. And the disparate impact provisions don't kick in until (at least) 180 days after enactment. Nothing in this prevents them from running out the clock.

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes b) That, if certain very experienced enviro lawyers are right, BAAJA could take options to regulate GHGs (or any other pollutant) off the table, effectively forever. (Or until Congress repeals those provisions.)

[Tony Dutzik @FrontierTony]

@Elan_Sykes The downsides are: a) that Trump will spend the next two years permitting a series of highly destructive developments - including on public lands they're already working to open to exploitation - with no hopes that those could ever be unwound, and ...