Vice President Kamala Harris may claim on her website that she will “cut red tape” to make it easier to build more housing, but a recent case in federal court, paired with her commitment to “environmental justice,” shows a Harris administration would only increase regulatory burdens on all construction projects, including clean energy projects.

The most powerful tool environmental activists have for shutting down construction projects of any type (housing, transportation, and energy) is the National Environmental Policy Act. When it was passed in 1970, few people realized how powerful the law was until it was used to shut down the construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee because of alleged damage to the habitat of the two-inch snail darter fish.