Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) said at a Breitbart News policy event on Monday that energy permitting reform would be the “biggest thing” America could do to “stimulate our economy.”
“If you look at the energy demand that’s required, we cannot get the energy production in place quickly enough to meet the need. And, the big part of that is that our permitting process, whether it’s for an LNG [liquified natural gas], whether it’s for a pipeline, or whether it’s for a fracking site, or whether it’s for a nuclear facility, or whether it’s for just an update, upgrade on transmission lines, it takes years and years and years. And, what happened is that laws that were well-meaning like the Clean Water Act have been hijacked by environmental activists, not with a purpose of actually getting appropriate resolution of a particular project, but by hijacking the process, delaying, and ultimately canceling investment,” McCormick told Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle at the policy event.
Read Full Article: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/11/exclusive-sen-dave-mccormick-energy-permitting-reform-biggest-thing-we-could-do-stimulate-our-economy/
