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Government Capacity
Policy Memo
Report
Bureaucracy as Social Hope: An Argument for Renewing the Administrative State

I. Why Isn’t Government Working? The “administrative state” is an unlovely bureaucratic term for a bureaucracy that has grown increasingly unloved: the network of government agencies that implements and enforces…

02.12.26 | 29 min read
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Government Capacity
Report
Barriers to Building: A Framework for the Next Era of Electricity Policy

…communities have not previously experienced. The Past Playbook Siting and permitting reforms have increasingly been part of the federal and state policy agenda. Reforms have largely focused on process changes…

12.15.25 | 26 min read
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FAS
Blog
Gil on the Hill: Who Won the Shutdown?

…a time when they’re needed most. Keep That Energy Permitting Reform. Congress is energized about simplifying permitting. Lawmakers across both parties and chambers are treating the upcoming markup by the…

11.25.25 | 7 min read
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Clean Energy
day one project
Policy Memo
Enhancing US Power Grid by using AI to Accelerate Permitting

The increased demand for power in the United States is driven by new technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and other computationally intensive activities that utilize ever faster and…

06.24.25 | 14 min read
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Environment
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Federal Climate Policy Is Being Gutted. What Does That Say About How Well It Was Working?

On the left is the Bankside Power Station in 1953. That vast relic of the fossil era once towered over London, oily smoke pouring from its towering chimney. These days,…

06.16.25 | 11 min read
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