U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune just put permitting reform on the Senate agenda before Election Day. This news comes as next week, America’s leading investors, policymakers and energy developers will fill Manhattan for Climate Week NYC to advance the technologies that can meet America’s surging power demand. American innovators are transforming nuclear energy, drilling geothermal wells faster and more efficiently, and bringing once-novel energy technologies closer to commercial reality. While American technology has rapidly improved, our permitting system has not. Fixing that should be at the top of everyone’s agenda.

There is a path there to do something that is long overdue for the country.

Wall Street has the money. American innovators have the talent and technology. Customers need the power. What is missing is a permitting system that gives investors the confidence that the government will responsibly approve vital infrastructure projects required to build the next generation of American energy.

The United States knows how to build. It took just five years to build the Hoover Dam, four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge and just over one year to build the Empire State Building.........

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