Alan Armstrong
US Senator (R-OK, appointed March 2026) · Former CEO, Williams Companies (WMB, 15 yrs)
aka Senator Alan Armstrong
“There's not very many people on either side of the aisle that will tell you they don't think permitting reform is extremely important... we've got a short window to get it done.”
“It's the environment that our NEPA laws today create, make it extremely ripe for litigation... to take an approach of sue and settle. So taking on NEPA reform in a way that you deal with litigation... and changing some of the judicial standards.”
“When I was at Williams, we did have the Regional Energy Access, which was a billion dollar project that went from Pennsylvania into New Jersey. Project was finished, up and operating, and the D.C. Circuit vacated our certificate... that's scary for a company that's in the business of building pipelines.”
Alan Armstrong
One-line summary: US Senator (R-OK), former 15-year CEO of Williams Companies (one of the largest US natural-gas infrastructure firms); sponsor of the American Energy and Mineral Infrastructure Act of 2026 — a NEPA / Clean Water Act 401 / judicial-review permitting-reform bill aimed at accelerating energy-infrastructure buildout (pipelines, transmission, LNG).
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On ai-gas-egress-buildout-to-appalachian-midstream-tariff-capture:
"There's not very many people on either side of the aisle that will tell you they don't think permitting reform is extremely important... we've got a short window to get it done." — 2026-07-28-podcast-columbia-energy-exchange-senator-alan-armstrong-on-building-american (2026-07-28)
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On ai-gas-egress-buildout-to-appalachian-midstream-tariff-capture:
"It's the environment that our NEPA laws today create, make it extremely ripe for litigation... to take an approach of sue and settle. So taking on NEPA reform in a way that you deal with litigation... and changing some of the judicial standards." — 2026-07-28-podcast-columbia-energy-exchange-senator-alan-armstrong-on-building-american (2026-07-28)
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On ai-gas-egress-buildout-to-appalachian-midstream-tariff-capture, gas-egress-buildout-to-line-pipe-octg-supplier:
"When I was at Williams, we did have the Regional Energy Access, which was a billion dollar project that went from Pennsylvania into New Jersey. Project was finished, up and operating, and the D.C. Circuit vacated our certificate... that's scary for a company that's in the business of building pipelines." — 2026-07-28-podcast-columbia-energy-exchange-senator-alan-armstrong-on-building-american (2026-07-28)
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