America is simply not building enough anymore.
In a world marked by rapidly increasing electricity demand, expanding AI capabilities, growing industrial reshoring, and severe grid stress, permitting reform must be a top priority.
America’s economic future depends on physical assets that have to move from concept to construction to commercial operation. Data centers require energy. Manufacturing requires energy. LNG exports require energy infrastructure. Advanced industry requires energy, transport, compression, processing, and logistics.
It is unacceptable that it takes, on average, 4 to 5 years to build a gas pipeline in the United States. There are many regions, especially in the northeast, that do not have adequate pipeline capacity to meet their energy needs. Many producing regions in the United States may soon face significant pipeline capacity constraints that could force production to shut in.
EWTC supports federal comprehensive permitting reform, such as the SPEED Act, which has passed through the House, that would streamline federal permitting timelines, end duplicative processes, and limit the ability to use multiple lawsuits to strategically slow and kill energy infrastructure projects. EWTC is urging the House and Senate to work to pass permitting reform this Congress.
