Ex-officials from the Trump, Biden and Obama administrations are warning the U.S. is at risk of losing a technological and industrial race with China—unless it adopts a major energy-permitting bill
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- WSJ reports: “Mike Pompeo, Janet Yellen and others urged Congress to pass an energy-permitting bill.”
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