Key legislators introduced bipartisan legislation Friday in the hopes of succeeding where others have failed and revamping the federal environmental review process for infrastructure and energy projects, which members of both parties have blamed for making it too hard to build in the United States.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) introduced the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development Act on Friday morning, with Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) co-sponsoring the bill. 

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