That was the headline on page B4 of the Times. Trump did it by executive order, since he has no legislative program. One order directs the EPA to make it more difficult for states to stop pipelines by invoking the provisions of the Clean Water Act.
The other order would transfer authority for the construction of international pipelines from the Secretary of State to the President, eliminating the review process. Trump is determined to build the Keystone XL line though Indian reservations.
Trump said that pipelines were being held up by “special-interest groups, entrenched bureaucracies and radical activists.”
I guess Linda and I and the members of Save Carbon County, the group opposing the PennEast Pipeline, would fit in that last category. And still we persist.
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