The Sun newspaper, serving Inland Empire in California (unemployment 13% and rising) identifies, then for some bizarro reason endorses, the "green tape" phenomena haunting the creation of "green jobs":

Western governors, animated by President Obama's goal of doubling renewable energy production in the U.S. within three years, have identified dozens of areas rich in "new energy" sources. However, they're now facing some of the same "old energy" obstacles to getting the projects moving. Their challenge risks creating a contradiction in which building environmentally friendly new-energy plants tramples sensitive natural areas...

As The Wall Street Journal reported, hundreds of applications to build solar plants in the arid West are being delayed by the regulatory process. The Bureau of Land Management, already busy reviewing traditional energy applications on public lands, has more than 200 solar proposals on its to-do list. The BLM is required to take into account environmental impacts and impacts on endangered species. Reviews are lengthy...

We're embarking on a promising new era. But our leaders must take every reasonable consideration to ensure that the harnessing of new energy is done properly.

No one objects to "reasonable considerations," it is the un-reasonable ones which are killing us. Unless we streamline the permitting process and set hard timelines for appeals by environmental activists our new energy future will always be just that, in the future.