Comprehensive permit reform has been an elusive Republican priority since at least 2020, and congressional leaders, federal officials, industry experts, and association advocates are cautiously confident a deregulatory measure will make it onto President Donald Trump’s desk in 2026.
If so, they concede with acknowledged irony, it will get there because Democrats, environmental advocates, and the renewable energy industry have joined a bipartisan chorus clamoring to streamline regulations, trim permitting processes, and de-fog the litigative labyrinths that now bedevil energy development and constrict grid expansion.
That was the consensus at the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Permitting Summit in Washington on Feb. 3 that featured nine discussions on permit reform and an optimism buoyed by a House bill now awaiting Senate endorsement that, among other provisions, scales back judicial review timelines….
Industry Groups, Advocates Press for Adoption of Bipartisan Permitting Bill
