"'The last thing we should do is encourage fiduciaries to make decisions with a lower rate of return for purely ideological reasons,' Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, the Senate’s lead sponsor of the bill, said earlier this month."

"'This truly bipartisan effort will help America once again lead the next century in reliable, affordable and clean energy,' Kott said in a statement. 'We need an all-of-the-above approach to meet our climate goals and power our economy.'"

"Some in Congress do not like expedited processes, and these days U.S. politics is a gordian knot.  But we cannot be satisfied with the status quo, nor can we afford to not build new, better things. There is an opportunity for permitting reform. We just need to take it."

"PJM, the grid operator, now has 2,700 energy projects under study — mostly wind, solar and batteries — a number that has tripled in just three years. Wait times can now reach four years or more, which prompted PJM last year to pause new reviews and overhaul its processes."

"'If you’re a climate advocate, you really gotta start with how you build stuff faster,' Peters said. 'And if you accept the challenge of climate change, and you accept how we have to follow the science, it is inevitable that you will accept the fact that we have to change these processes.'"

"The legislation also directs all options to be explored with countries that are allies or partners of the United States, to expand nuclear materials available to the U.S."