Matthew Foldi
July 18, 2026
Fresh off rolling out a high-profile legislative push to overhaul Americas broken permitting system, Sen. Alan Armstrong (R., Okla.) took to the Senate floor to deliver his inaugural floor speech….
“I saw this problem firsthand while leading Williams Companies,” Armstrong said, detailing the saga of the Constitution Pipeline a 120-mile project designed to bring low-cost Pennsylvania natural gas to the energy-starved Northeast. “We had our federal certificate. We had bought the pipe and the right-of-way. We were already clearing the route. But we were stopped by a state government that used Section 401 of the Clean Water Act as a political veto, waiting until Earth Day to deny a permit for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with water quality.”
[He failed to mention that the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit agreed with NYS and blasted the Company for refusing to provide the required information.]
Read the full article at the Washington Reporter.