President Donald Trump’s new permitting director said she hopes Congress can eliminate her job by passing meaningful reform. Last week, the White House named former congressional staffer Emily Domenech to head the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, more simply known as the Permitting Council. The 16-person council was established during the second Obama administration through the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation...
Congress recognized that conservation plays a critical role in global security and improved cooperation among countries when it passed the U.S. Foundation for International Conservation Act (USFICA) last December, as part of a nearly $1 trillion defense spending package.
President Trump’s vision to Unleash American Energy requires a functional government to execute it. Yet the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made government less functional. With Elon Musk stepping down from DOGE, now is the time for DOGE 2.0 to live up to its name. Otherwise, the president’s energy objectives are in jeopardy. The administrative state was overdue...
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released text for its portion of the Trump legislative agenda policy bill that Republicans are trying to get across the finish line, becoming the first Senate panel to do so. The committee’s text appears similar to provisions passed by the House. It’s not one of the committees that...
Fishing companies and offshore wind opponents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s decision to reverse course and allow construction to resume on Empire Wind, a $5 billion wind farm project off New York’s coast. Protect Our Coast New Jersey, Clean Ocean Action, ACK for Whales and 12 fishing industry participants in a lawsuit...
Adversarial nations and strategic competitors currently dominate global supplies of rare earth elements—and control much of the world’s processing capacity for other critical minerals. These resources are essential for everything from fighter jets and submarines to semiconductors, satellites, and energy infrastructure. Without secure access to them, America’s economic future and national defense are at risk, particularly with rapidly...
A uranium mine in southern Utah is the first project to be approved under President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration streamlining the development of energy infrastructure. Owned and operated by the Canadian company Anfield Energy, the Velvet-Wood uranium project received a green light on Friday under the federal government’s new, 14-day environmental review process for energy...
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday that a federal agency had done enough to consider the environmental impact of a proposed 88-mile railway in Utah. The ruling limits the scope of environmental reviews required by federal law in all sorts of settings. The proposed railway would connect oil fields in the Uinta Basin in northeast Utah...
In a groundbreaking move to bolster domestic critical mineral production, the U.S. Department of the Interior has greenlit the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine in San Juan County, Utah—marking the nation’s first project approved under a newly accelerated 14-day environmental review process, initiated in response to the national energy emergency declared by President Donald J. Trump. “This approval marks a...
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