Is it appropriate to be concerned that this will result in infrastructure being approved without sufficient review, potentially resulting in dangerous infrastructure?
From TFA, it says that the delays are due to the various agencies involved (Depts. of Interior, Commerce, Homeland Security, EPA, FERC) doing their reviews sequentially. Now they will do them concurrently. I imagine that if one agency needed information from another, they could ask for it (rather than waiting for it and n other intermediate review processes to end). Otherwise, it looks like the diligence involved should be the same.
Our entire economy is based on people being able to tasks while other people do other tasks. Concurrency is everywhere and we seem to manage just fine.
That comment doesn't make sense in this situation. The different agencies review and approve different things, so there should be little or no overlap.