 His 2015 report "Two Years, Not Ten Years," detailing the economic and environmental costs of delaying infrastructure approvals, has influenced the Trump Administration's infrastructure proposals, including their call for approvals to be made within two years.Critics such as the Natural Resources Defense Council disagree with report's findings, arguing that money, not permits, is the reason infrastructure projects are delayed, and that Howard's report relied on outdated statistics.The Trump administration's infrastructure proposal, released in February 2018, contained many of the recommendations from the report.