Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs, with Senator Alan Armstrong

Why America can’t build the natural gas pipelines it needs, with Senator Alan Armstrong

June 5, 2026 · 32 min

About this episode

Alex Epstein interviews Senator Alan Armstrong about the challenges of building natural gas pipelines in America and the implications of the Clean Water Act.

I recently sat down with Alan Armstrong, the former CEO of Williams (one of America’s foremost natural gas pipeline companies) and now the freshman Senator from Oklahoma, to talk about a key part of Congress's ongoing permitting negotiations: the Clean Water Act.

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