Trump signs executive orders fast-tracking the pipeline approval process
When Donald Trump was campaigning to become president in 2016, he promised to speed up the government review process for “private sector energy infrastructure projects.” On Wednesday, he made good on that pledge by signing two executive orders that would put pipelines on the fast track to success.
In addition to shortening the review process for infrastructure
projects, the orders are aimed at limiting states’ power to pause
construction and giving the president the final word on permits for
cross-border projects, among other things.