The Trump administration has identified hundreds of “emergency” energy projects whose approvals could be fast-tracked.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has updated its website to put hundreds of new projects on its emergency docket under President Trump’s energy emergency declaration.
Among those on the list are approval for the construction of a tunnel that would allow a segment of the controversial Line 5 pipeline to run through Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac.
The Corps’s website states that projects that are considered “emergencies” can be expedited.
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