In light of President Biden's 2025 proposed budget, it's up to the governors of oil and gas-producing states to do all in their power to keep providing the energy America needs.
FILE - A rig and supply vessel are viewed in the Gulf of Mexico off the cost of Louisiana, April 10, 2011. Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S.
When I arrived in Baton Rouge four months ago as Louisiana’s new secretary of environmental quality, I was awestruck to discover that many of the agency’s permitting procedures had changed little in the last half-century. In an age where most teens have virtual supercomputers glued to their hands, governments still ask businesses to make their way through labyrinthian regulatory requirements using the bureaucratic equivalent of stone knives and bearskins.
I’m requiring electronic tablets to be used in my agency. We will build toward a reality where permitting progress can thus be posted automatically on our “dashboard.” The slow and the fast will be there for all to see. By bringing the environmental permitting process out of the dark ages and into the digital sunshine, we will cut environmental permitting time in Louisiana in half in the next year. And we will do that while protecting Louisiana’s second-to-none environment.
We can do this. When I was director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington under President Donald Trump, my mission was to bring that agency into the 21st century by employing business practices that were backward to the government. In those four years, we learned how to do a better job.
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