By Roland Murphy | AZBEX
About the only thing that hasn’t been covered in the tumult following President Trump’s Tuesday press conference, where he announced a new executive order to simplify the infrastructure project permitting process, has been the actual details of the order, itself.
Calling the permitting process, “Badly broken,” Trump noted it took 11 months in 1930-1931 to build the Empire State Building, but said, in today’s regulatory climate, projects can take decades or more to obtain all the necessary permits and approvals to construct even “a fairly routine highway.”