More than 220 natural gas pipeline-related proposals across 22 states are among nearly 700 projects that could see accelerated approvals under President Donald Trump’s National Emergency Declaration.
Many are in oil- and gas-rich regions, such as Appalachia—Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas. Producers in Appalachia and Texas are pushing for more access to interstate pipelines to fuel growing demand for natural gas as the nation’s top electricity generator and as liquid natural gas for export.
Not included in the list of 220 proposals are “zombie pipelines” frozen or withdrawn in regulatory limbo from its approval queue.
Some—most notably, the president himself—are calling for exhuming several notable “zombies,” such as the Constitution pipeline in New York and TCEnergy’s Keystone XL....
