Daniel Palken

I'm Jason Bordoff.

Today on the show, Daniel Palken.

Daniel's the director of infrastructure for energy and permitting at Arnold Ventures.

Prior to his current role, he worked in the US Senate, most recently as a professional staff member for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and prior to that as the senior policy advisor to Senator Hickenlooper of Colorado for energy, climate, and minerals issues.

And we considered the arguments against the bill and the concerns it could weaken environmental safeguards or fail to accelerate the energy transition.

I hope you enjoy our conversation.

Daniel Palken, uh, welcome to Columbia Energy Exchange for the first time.

It is great to have you on.

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It's a website called, uh, U- USenergydata.org, um, and we're gonna learn more about it from Daniel Palken, who's a, uh, super smart young, uh, analyst who'd been in Senate staff working on energy, electricity, uh, ac- um, policy, and now has moved to, uh, Arnold Ventures, which is, um, a newish, uh, philan- philanthropic operation trying to look at a, a bunch of issues.

Well, four or four at least, education, energy is one, um, and, uh, we're gonna learn more about them too.

And we're gonna talk about that bipartisan, um, uh, permitting reform bill, which has been all the rage on energy Twitter, energy blue sky, and everywhere else.

What I am going to attempt to do today is have a reasonable discussion of the contents and relative merits of the bill.

My guest is Daniel Palken, who runs infrastructure and energy permitting work at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropy devoted to sustainable energy systems.

Before that, he spent more than four years in the Senate working for various senators on various bits and pieces of permitting legislation, including two thousand twenty-four's ill-fated Manchin-Barrasso Energy Permitting Reform Act.

He has seen the process from the inside and followed the development of all the various provisions closely.

So, let's get into it.

All right.

With no further ado, Daniel Palken, welcome to Volts.

Thank you so much for coming.