Just over a week before the U.S. signed the Paris climate agreement at the conclusion of the COP21
United Nations summit, President Barack Obama signed a bill into law
with a provision that expedites permitting of oil and gas pipelines in
the United States.
The
legal and conceptual framework for the fast-tracking provision on
pipeline permitting arose during the fight over TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. President Barack Obama initially codified that concept via Executive Order 13604 — signed the same day as he signed an Executive Order to fast-track construction of Keystone XL's southern leg — and this provision “builds on the permit streamlining project launched by” Obama according to corporate law firm Holland & Knight.
That 60-page streamlining provision falls on page 1,141 of the broader 1,301-page FAST (Fixing America's Surface Transportation) Act (H.R. 22 and S. 1647),
known in policy wonk circles as the highway bill. The provision is
located in a section titled, “Federal Permitting Improvement.” MORE
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