Europe empowers agencies to make decisions directly rather than requiring endless public process; Europe also has timelines on environmental reviews, while America has allowed open-ended lawsuits and a culture of indefinite delay to take over.

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Sohrab Shahid-Sarkis

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they empower their agencies to have more uh more uh uh empowerment they have more power to actually make decisions right... in America, we I think the the bigger thing that's happened is we've let open-ended lawsuits and this general kind of culture of letting things languish forever take over

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Three Visions of Where Democrats Went Wrong | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:03:02 AM

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