Washington, April 15 -- Congresswoman Susie Lee issued the following press release:
At today's Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Energy (DOE) budget hearing in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) secured a commitmen (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q-Ro26KBB1VB_r0v98M7dS-SVILJQRoL/view?usp=sharing)t from Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to join her in pressing Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to end the Trump Administration's ongoing weaponization of the federal permitting process that has slowed or stopped solar projects in Nevada and nationwide.
Secretary Wright agreed with Congresswoman Lee that it should be easier to permit and build solar, and he said he would per...