Governors are working together across party lines and state lines on common sense solutions to safely speed up the process to deliver energy and infrastructure benefits nationwide. The enactment of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act creates a historic opportunity to leverage the combined $1.4 trillion in energy, transportation, water and telecommunications funding to move forward on meaningful infrastructure projects.
Governors created a bipartisan Energy and Infrastructure Working Group in February 2023 to develop solutions to streamline permitting processes. The Working Group, co-chaired by Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, released a bipartisan vision of ways to accelerate project delivery – several tenets of which were incorporated into the debt ceiling agreement, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, recently passed by Congress and signed into law by the President in early June.
During NGA’s Annual Meeting in Atlantic City, N.J., Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt and North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper convened private sector infrastructure partners to explore permitting reform and other strategies to deploy funds and build…
