OP-ED: Permitting Reform Must Match the Scale of America’s Energy Challenge
By Michael Catanzaro
June 24, 2026
The explosion of AI applications over the past few years has been extraordinary. Every major sector of the economy is integrating AI tools, and the data centers required to support those applications are growing at a pace that few anticipated even five years ago. There is now broad and deepening agreement across the political spectrum that a robust, U.S.-developed and U.S.-based AI ecosystem is not just an economic priority but a national security imperative. If the U.S. is going to maintain technological leadership, the infrastructure underpinning that leadership has to be American.
American Energy + AI Coalition Commends House Passage of the SPEED Act
The American Energy + AI (AE+AI) Coalition commends the passage of H.R. 4776, the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act, by the U.S. House of Representatives.
American Energy + AI Coalition Supports Passage of Effective Permitting Reform Bills
The American Energy +AI (AE+AI) Coalition supports the passage of H.R. 3668, the Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act, sponsored by Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), and H.R. 3898, the PERMIT Act, sponsored by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Energy alliance huddles with Trump officials on powering AI
Energy bigwigs met with Trump administration officials in Washington on Thursday as part of a new initiative aimed at boosting U.S. energy supplies to meet the demand spurred by artificial intelligence.
That effort, launched earlier this year and dubbed the American Energy + AI Initiative, is a partnership led by the Hamm Institute for American Energy based out of Oklahoma State University and the Washington lobbying firm CGCN Group.
Trump, AI — and what you missed at our summit
The Trump administration wants to reengineer the federal government to be a no-frills operation with fewer people and a lot more artificial intelligence.
The administration has already started integrating AI into government functions, most notably with the rollout of USAi, a platform that lets federal employees use a handful of popular AI models like Claude and ChatGPT to get a sense for how the systems can automate workflows.