Backers Fear Lame Duck Could Be Bipartisan Permit Bill’s Best Chance

Some supporters of a pending Senate energy permit streamlining bill are expressing worries that a failure to enact the measure during the current lame-duck session of Congress will jeopardize the chances of passing any permitting package next year, when Republicans are poised to control the White House and both chambers of Congress. “If we don’t get [a permit bill] done in a lame duck, I’m very concerned we can’t get it done next year,” former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)...