Tom Carper: “The permitting process can be a very complicated area, multiple scientific disciplines, economics, and the law.”

To have vacancies that may be not just months, but in some cases years to that have been filled, that justice delayed is justice denied.

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.