Permitting Failure is Costing Americans

Americans are feeling the impact of higher energy costs, with 83% of American families reporting that their energy bills have increased in recent years. The good news is that we have abundant energy resources here at home to satisfy rapidly growing energy demand and alleviate rising costs. But despite ample supply, bureaucratic bottlenecks and unsuccessful legal challenges are blocking America from the energy that powers it.

Since 2020, New England and California have seen electricity prices increase at a rate three times that of the rest of the United States.

New England has actively opposed new natural gas infrastructure in recent years, resulting in cancelled pipeline projects. At the same time, natural gas demand has grown in the region and is increasingly relied upon to meet winter peak demands.

AI and LNG exports do not explain New England’s cost increases. This is an infrastructure issue, not a resource issue.

America has the resources. Now is the time to build.

Communities across America are counting on Congress to deliver a modernized, efficient, predictable, and transparent permitting process—one that provides the project certainty needed to secure investment today, unlock economic growth, and foster innovation that creates opportunity and a stronger future for families and neighborhoods.

PAGE, alongside hundreds of other clean energy, manufacturing, business and state chamber of commerce organizations, sent a letter to members of the United States Senate urging them to pass bipartisan, comprehensive permitting reform.

A modernized permitting system will help us build smarter, faster, and more sustainably.