How Congress must and can unchain US energy — and power America’s future

Nypost · 🇨🇳 public China · Apr 29, 2026 · 748 words · By David McCormick

Economic Growth and Job Creation Regulatory Reform and Deregulation Energy Independence and Security

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Over the next six months, Congress has a historic chance to deliver an energy and economic bonanza — by overhauling America’s broken permitting system.

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What happened

Over the next six months, Congress has a historic chance to deliver an energy and economic bonanza — by overhauling America’s broken permitting system.

Why it matters

President Donald Trump has already led the way, cutting red tape and pulling in record investment.

Common ground

Now, with midterms closing in, Congress must finish the job.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Straw Man: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 95% confidence

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Name Calling / Labeling 70% confidence

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Straw Man 85% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Recent fighting in the Strait of Hormuz is a stark reminder that we can’t rely on the rest of the world to power our future.”

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The claim that recent fighting in the Strait of Hormuz indicates the U.S. cannot rely on global sources for future energy needs is based on a web search result referencing a specific future crisis date (2026) and is not independently corroborated by other sources.

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web search NEUTRAL — Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a major maritime choke point for world energy trade, has been largely blocked by Iran since 28 February 2026, when the United States and Israel launched …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Strait_of_Hormuz_crisis

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web search NEUTRAL — Tehran says it has agreed to open the Strait of Hormuz for two weeks "if attacks against Iran are halted".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78n6p09pzno

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web search NEUTRAL — Source: XPost. Why the Strait of Hormuz Matters to Global Energy Markets.The announcement indicating that Iranian oil tankers would be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to reassure…
https://www.hokanews.com/2026/03/oil-drops-to-95-as-strait-o…

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Claim 2: “Transmission lines take even longer, nearly eight years apiece.”

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The claim that permitting transmission lines takes nearly eight years is presented in a web search result, but no other independent sources corroborate this specific timeline.

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web search NEUTRAL — These lines are approaching the end of their typical 50-80-year lifecycle—and today, it often takes 10 years or more to build new lines. DOE estimates we need to expand our transmission system 60% by …
https://cleanpower.org/wp-content/uploads/gateway/2024/04/AC…

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web search NEUTRAL — It is unclear if state permitting processes will adjust to the expected increase in the number of proposals for new transmission lines. Quantitatively, isolating the expected effects of permitting fro…
https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/state-permitting-challeng…

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web search NEUTRAL — Transmission Permitting Tracker A centralized, public view into the permitting status of major planned transmission lines across the United States — helping bring clarity to a process that often spans…
https://cleanenergygrid.org/transmission-permitting-tracker/

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Claim 3: “It stops opponents from weaponizing the Clean Water Act as a general-purpose veto on energy development projects, setting hard deadlines and limiting reviews to actual water-quality concerns.”

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No evidence was found regarding the legislation limiting the use of the Clean Water Act to actual water-quality concerns.

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Claim 4: “The projects stuck in limbo could power more than 50 million homes.”

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The claim that delayed projects could power over 50 million homes is mentioned in the context of federal permitting issues, but the specific figure and its source are not independently corroborated by the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Energy (from Ancient Greek ἐνέργεια (enérgeia) 'activity') is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the capacity to do work and in the form …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, win…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — TotalEnergies SE is a French multinational integrated energy and petroleum company founded in 1924 and is one of the seven supermajor oil companies. Its businesses cover the entire oil and gas chain, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TotalEnergies

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Claim 5: “Storage capacity? A mere 2% increase in that time.”

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The web search results contain general information about natural gas storage and production trends, but they do not provide the specific, quantifiable data points (2% increase between 2013 and 2024) needed to confirm the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An Ocean Between Us is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying, released on August 21, 2007, by Metal Blade Records. It debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, with sales clos…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Ocean_Between_Us

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between Us may refer to: Between Us (2003 film), a short film by Laurits Munch-Petersen Between Us (2004 film), a short film by Charlotte Bruus Christensen Between Us (2011 film), a Mexican comedy fi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Between Us is a 2012 American drama film directed by Dan Mirvish and written by Mirvish and Joe Hortua, based on Hortua's 2004 stage play. It stars Taye Diggs, Melissa George, David Harbour, and Julia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Us_(2012_film)

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Claim 6: “Right now, $1.5 trillion in critical infrastructure sits frozen in permitting limbo — holding back up to $2.4 trillion in unrealized economic activity.”

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Multiple web search results estimate the amount of capital expenditure stuck in federal permitting. One source cites $1.1 trillion to $1.5 trillion awaiting federal permits, and another estimates the unrealized induced GDP impact at $1.7 trillion to $2 trillion, supporting the magnitude of the claim.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), (H.R. 3684) is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_…

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web search NEUTRAL — These findings combined suggest there is $1.1 trillion to $1.5 trillion of infrastructure capital expenditure currently in federal permitting, costing stakeholders billions of dollars in lost revenue …
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insigh…

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web search NEUTRAL — Costly to communities and the economy - An estimated $1.5 trillion in investment is currently awaiting federal permits, while the unrealized induced GDP impact of infrastructure projects now in federa…
https://purpose.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-r…

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Claim 7: “It scraps the outdated policy that forces liquified-natural-gas exporters to ask for case-by-case federal approval before selling American gas abroad.”

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Claim 8: “And it brings common sense to environmental litigation, which activists routinely use to kill projects that have already cleared every regulatory hurdle.”

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Claim 9: “From 2013 to ’24, US natural gas demand surged 49% — while pipeline capacity grew just 26%.”

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While the web search results contain information about natural gas production and demand, they do not provide specific, comparable data points for a 49% increase in demand and 26% increase in pipeline capacity between 2013 and 2024 to confirm the claim's specific metrics.

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Claim 10: “We are an energy superpower — third in the nation in total electricity production, second in natural gas, second in nuclear.”

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Claim 11: “We are in a head-to-head race with communist China for AI leadership, and the stakes are existential.”

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Multiple web search results discuss the intense competition and rivalry between the US and China in the AI sector, confirming that the US is competing with China for leadership in AI.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The roots of the development of artificial intelligence in the People's Republic of China started in the late 1970s following Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms emphasizing science and technology as the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_indust…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An economic conflict between China and the United States has been ongoing since January 2018, when U.S. president Donald Trump began imposing tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the aim of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China–United_States_trade_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Department of Defense has been analyzing and employing military applications of artificial intelligence since at least 2014. The program initially focused on drones and other robots,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_artificial_intelligence…

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Claim 12: “It modernizes nuclear licensing to match today’s technology and decades of proven safety.”

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Claim 13: “The bill takes on four distinct chokepoints.”

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No evidence was found regarding the proposed legislation addressing four specific regulatory issues.

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Claim 14: “It takes longer to permit a power plant — five years — than it took us to win World War II.”

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The claim is directly supported by a web search result comparing the time to permit a power plant (five years) to the duration of World War II (1939-1945).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The military history of the United States during World War II covers the nation's role as one of the major Allies in their victory over the Axis powers. The United States is generally considered to ha…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — World War II, or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945), was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Almost every country in the world participated in World War II. Most were neutral at the beginning, but relatively few nations remained neutral to the end. World War II pitted two alliances of nations…
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