Bipartisan bill limits federal environmental review of telecoms projects
broadband, infrastructure, public policy, speed act, wireless broadband
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Just don’t disturb the ground.
A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. senate aims to put some common sense into environmental law, at least where wireless facilities are concerned. Co-authored by U.S. senators Roger Wicker (R – Mississippi) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D – Nevada), senate bill 1988, aka the Speed act, would exempt a “communication facility installation” from federal environmental and historic reviews, if there’s already infrastructure in place in the project area.
Wireless infrastructure gets additional exemptions.… More