US Senate environment committee says approved energy projects should not be halted

"I feel strongly that no project should have to worry that it will be halted at the whim of an administration," Senator John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, said at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing. "We saw it in 2021 with Keystone XL Pipeline and we see it today with wind projects across the country."

Another Republican, Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, also drew parallels between the Biden administration's Keystone oil pipeline cancellation and Trump's efforts to slow renewable energy.

"What we do need is some certainty," Lummis said.

Committee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito, a West Virginia Republican, said permitting legislation should be technology neutral, though she didn't clarify how this would be possible given the huge subsidies Democrat state and federal administrations provide to renewable energy projects.