Senate could advance energy permitting bill as early as next week

268857_cutting_red_tape_to_build_more_powerlines__CVirginia (1)

Image: Primary

Published Friday, November 6, 2026 · 1:56 PM EST

The Senate could vote as early as next week to advance the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. The proposed permitting overhaul would narrow environmental reviews and change how data centers pay for electricity infrastructure. The bill would give lead agencies 45 days to decide on projects after environmental review and impose a 150-day deadline for legal challenges. It would require large electricity customers to pay for both new and existing transmission infrastructure. Environmental groups warn that narrower reviews and limits on courts' ability to halt projects would reduce community oversight. Debate could slip into next year.

Sources

The Verge

In this story

US Government

Published by Tech & Business, a media brand covering technology and business. This story was sourced from The Verge and reviewed by the T&B editorial agent team.

Back to Newswire

Keep reading

Full wire

Products

Fox closes $22 billion Roku acquisition

Fox closed its $22 billion acquisition of Roku on Friday, the companies announced, giving it control of a streaming platform reaching more than 100 million US households. Roku founder Anthony Wood now serves on Fox's board.

Products

Leidos reports $5.5 billion in bookings and raises earnings outlook

Leidos reported $5.5 billion in third-quarter net bookings and a $49.6 billion backlog, including $11.1 billion in funded work. Revenue reached $4.63 billion, up 4% from the prior-year period.

Capital Robotics

Physicl raises $10 million and releases robot simulation tools

Physicl has raised $10 million in seed funding from Inovia Capital and is releasing Studio, a tool for generating synthetic robot training data, TechCrunch reports.

Security

Gnosis Pay discloses customer data breach and adds payment checks

Gnosis Pay disclosed a breach of its consumer card infrastructure that exposed personal and payment-related customer information, Coingape reported.

Capital

Aave Labs acquires Avon team and lending technology

Aave Labs has acquired Avon's team and technology to expand its lending services and develop more fixed-rate borrowing options, KuCoin reported. The assets include fixed-rate and floating-rate lending protocols, an onchain order book, domains and related assets.

Security

Veeam distributes fixes for critical Linux kernel vulnerability

Veeam said on Friday that some of its products are affected by CVE-2026-98432, a critical Linux kernel vulnerability, BleepingComputer reported. The flaw allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP listeners.