Biden Signs Bill Cutting Environmental Reviews for Semiconductor Industry

Supporters of the measure said environmental reviews could have slowed or stopped projects already underway.

President Joe Biden looks at a quantum computer as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Oct. 6, 2022. Madndel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Some U.S. semiconductor manufacturing facilities will now be exempt from environmental reviews after President Joe Biden signed the Building Chips in America Act into law on Oct.2.

Without the law, projects from the $52.7 billion CHIPS Act of 2022 could have been forced to undergo additional federal environmental reviews to obtain permits.