This Democrat and this Republican agree on a major bipartisan win for American energy

The United States used to build huge, impressive projects really fast.

We don’t do that anymore. Projects that once took months or a couple of years now take decades.

The U.S. is among the slowest nations in the developed world in approving infrastructure projects – particularly when it comes to energy. 

Why? As co-chairs of a bipartisan group of governors working on energy policy, we submit that the primary culprit is lousy permitting policies that needlessly drag out projects and which now endanger the massive infrastructure investments the federal government has...