President Joe Biden put his signature on a bill this week that will allow semiconductor manufacturing projects funded by the CHIPS Act to skirt certain environmental regulations.
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The new law exempts them from lengthy environmental impact reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), greasing the wheels for these major construction projects to get off the ground faster.