Opinion: Make permitting easy again

Donald Trump promises to roll back regulations, but how about streamlining Washington’s creaky permitting for new projects? The time and cost it takes to start an infrastructure or energy project is one of America’s worst bottlenecks on growth, but Washington has been gridlocked on fixing the problem. See the 12 years it took to get permits to start construction on a transmission line to bring hydropower from Canada to New York City.