By Karen Davis (January 3, 2018, 2:07 PM EST) -- Notwithstanding the efforts of the Trump administration to streamline the permitting process for large infrastructure projects, the path to final regulatory approval for natural gas pipeline projects remains uncertain. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13,807, "Establishing Discipline and Accountability in the Environmental Review and Permitting Process for Infrastructure"[1] with the goal of establishing consistency, predictability and timeliness in the environmental review and permitting of pipeline and other major infrastructure projects and to complete all federal environmental reviews and authorization decisions for major infrastructure projects within two years. Former President Barack Obama signed into law the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act in 2015[2] that was also intended to streamline and provide a level of certainty for permitting of large-scale infrastructure projects, but focused on transportation projects and did not cover natural gas pipelines. Notwithstanding the lofty goals of these presidential actions, recent court decisions make clear that the permitting process for major natural gas pipeline projects remains unpredictable....
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