Washington talks energy dominance. Without permitting reform, it can’t build

Washington talks energy dominance. Without permitting reform, it can’t build

If Congress allows permitting reform to stall again, the United States will inevitably face higher energy costs, weaker energy reliability, and reduced geopolitical influence. Washington favors strong language and superlatives about resilience, competitiveness, energy dominance, and winning the future. But for all that rhetoric, policymakers don’t seem to feel the urgency of a major weakness at home. That weakness centers on knowingly enabling p…