Interior solicitor nominee William Doffermyre promised senators Thursday to be a “strong voice” for permitting predictability if confirmed.
That’s after Democrats pressed him on the administration’s recent stop work order on a $5 billion offshore wind project under construction off the coast of New York.
Doffermyre told members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that he agreed with President Donald Trump’s assessment that the country faces an energy emergency, which he blamed on a “byzantine” maze of federal and state regulations.
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He said “that makes it far too easy to kill projects, kill infrastructure projects with endless litigation and far too hard to actually get shovels in the ground.”
