A simple way to cure America’s self-inflicted infrastructure paralysis

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Today, building the infrastructure necessary to maintain America’s prosperity often requires navigating a maze of permits, lawsuits, and regulatory delays. The power to block has systematically triumphed over the freedom to build.

Yet our infrastructure paralysis is self-inflicted. Whether it is a natural gas pipeline, a transmission line, or mines for the building blocks of modernity, building anything at scale now requires navigating an unpredictable legal gauntlet.

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