Interior Sets 28-Day Deadline to Speed Energy Project Approvals

April 23, 2025, 8:15 PM UTC

The Interior Department is streamlining the energy permitting process to take a maximum of 28 days for projects, Secretary Doug Burgum announced Wednesday.

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 ...

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