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How environmental laws get in the way of building sustainable infrastructure

Green energy, like wind or solar power, is one solution to fighting climate change. But sometimes it’s environmental laws that get in the way of building the infrastructure to produce it.

Darian Woods and Adrian Ma from the daily economics podcast “The Indicator” report.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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