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Brian Schatz: “There's a national solar ban right now.”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Sen. Brian Schatz in conversation with Axios' Nathan Bomey

Published | Video Starts at 02:42

The CEO of Bechtel was here saying really compelling things about when the government makes a decision, it has to stick. But There's a national solar ban right now. And so in order to get permitting reform, we. We need to have some confidence that we're not going to make the world safe for the American Petroleum Institute and not for all these solar projects. (02:42–02:45)

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Asserts there is a national ban on solar energy projects.

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