The Interior Department is streamlining the energy permitting process to take a maximum of 28 days for projects, Secretary
The move aims to accelerate the leasing and production of domestic energy and critical minerals projects as part of President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 national energy emergency declaration.
Trump declared a national energy emergency on the first day of his second term, criticizing the Biden administration for “inadequate development of domestic energy resources” that leaves the country “vulnerable to hostile foreign actors and poses an imminent and growing threat to the United States’ prosperity and national ...