A veteran Republican policy adviser is taking leadership of a federal office charged with making environmental permits move faster, according to the agency.
As executive director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, Emily Domenech will lead an agency that the Trump administration sees as an important tool for nudging large developments—including mining, transportation, data storage and management, and artificial intelligence projects—through the permitting bureaucracy.
Historically FPISC has only played a minor role in federal permitting; the office was almost eliminated before the 2021 infrastructure law permanently reauthorized it. But the naming of Domenech, an ...