Courts Curb Federal Effort to Speed Pipeline Permits

摘要

The Trump administration last week unveiled a final rule aimed at limiting blue states' ability to stall federally approved gas pipelines, making good on President Donald Trump's pledge to fast-track such projects. But those efforts have been repeatedly checked by the federal courts. While the administration has "followed through on trying to knock down key barriers" to permitting and other regulatory hurdles, a ruling from a federal district court in Montana scrapping streamlined water permitting pipelines remains an "elephant in the room," said Wayne D'Angelo, an attorney with the law firm Kelley Drye & Warren.