Since exploding onto the national stage in early 2025, the Abundance concept has been embraced by scholars, politicians, courts, and public intellectuals across the political spectrum. It posits that procedural legalism in the form of paperwork and public process and lawsuits, especially related to environmental permitting, has impaired America’s ability to build things and created a scarcity of public goods like housing, clean energy, public transportation, etc. To unlock these good things, Abundance proponents advocate reform that rolls back the pillars of environmental democracy in favor of a return to more centralized decisionmaking by elite experts. They concede that this theory of change necessarily involves tradeoffs between democracy and efficiency, but have not articulated a serious concrete proposal for actually balancing those values. The Trump Administration has filled that vacuum by systematically ignoring government process, eviscerating public participation, and thwarting judicial review to prioritize fossil fuel development and scuttle renewable energy projects. Drawing from the social science and dispute resolution literature, this Essay proposes a tangible alternative that preserves environmental democracy while reforming participatory governance for the twenty first century.