WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (WV News) — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., expressed optimism Thursday about the possibility of reforming the federal permitting process for energy projects.

Capito, who chairs the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, told attendees of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting and Business Summit that a bipartisan compromise could finally be possible after numerous stalled attempts.

"One of things that's holding you all up, the state up and others up for building is the permitting process," she said. "The regulatory morass of trying to build something in this country is just ridiculous. It's overburdened, it's timely, it's costly and some people just give up."

Capito cited the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the natural gas project th

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