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Four Dams on the Snake River Make Clean Power, So Why Tear Them Down The push to breach four lower Snake River dams for salmon would remove carbon-free hydropower and grain barging, a contradiction in climate politics. We Raised the Empire State Building in About a Year, So Why Not a Power Line Americans once built skyscrapers, dams and a Pentagon in a year or two, and the slowdown owes more to permits and lawsuits than to engineering. A Thought Experiment on Requiring a Permit to Apply for a Permit A satirical Office of Pre-Application Review shows where permitting logic ends, then the real NEPA, Paperwork Reduction Act and APA steps are laid out plainly. A Two-Page Law From 1970 Now Produces Studies Longer Than a Novel NEPA began as a short procedural statute. Decades of lawsuits turned its impact statement into a years-long obstacle for roads, power lines and mines. Seven Things People Said About the Texas Blackout of 2021, Tested Both sides told tidy stories about Winter Storm Uri. Seven claims tested against the federal record, and the lesson about paying for dependable power.