White House and Republican negotiators hammering out an agreement to avoid a US default are eyeing a measure to upgrade the nation’s electric grid to accommodate renewable power, a move aimed at mollifying progressives as they also consider ways to speed permits sought by the energy industry.
The permitting measures could be part of a compromise to tweak a bedrock environmental law, known as National Environmental Policy Act, people familiar with the negotiations said Thursday.
Those efforts could include changes pushed by moderate Democratic Senator