Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued six orders aligning DOI procedures with Trump’s policies.
Newly seated Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued six Department of Interior (DOI) orders on Feb. 3, his first official day in office.
The DOI “will immediately identify all emergency and legal authorities available to facilitate the identification, permitting, leasing, development, production, transportation, refining, distribution, exporting, and generation of domestic energy resources and critical minerals” the order states.
The department—which manages 500 million acres of public lands and 1.7 billion offshore acres—will also “identify all emergency and other legal authorities available to expedite the completion of all authorized and appropriate infrastructure, energy, environmental, and natural resources projects,” it states.
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