What Matthew Yglesias thinks about permitting

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Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.

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1. 6 Oct 2026, 10:03 UTC

   Our readingPermitting reform as climate policy relies on the assumption that storage technology will continue to improve and become cheaper.

   optimismbatteries

   Their wordsIt’s a bet that the battery optimists are correct that storage technology will keep getting better and cheaper so that this line will keep going up rather than hit a wall when the summer market gets saturated.

   ↗The permitting deal is good and should passslowboring.com