The White House on Friday unveiled its plan to use technology to speed up environmental permitting.
The blueprint is part of a coordinated effort by the Trump administration to get projects approved as fast as possible—a target that worries environmental advocates, who fear air, water, and climate impacts will be brushed aside in the rush to build.
Even so, permitting specialists on both sides of the aisle broadly agree that technology can and should be used to speed up processes that are still, in many cases, often paper-based. There is also agreement that federal agencies’ systems should be interoperable so ...