Liam Denning, Columnist

The Trump Energy Shock

His policies will only boost supplies of oil, gas, coal and power.

January 25, 2017 at 1:58 PM UTC

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column.

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It's morning in America's fossil-fuels business.

President Trump just signed off on two totemic pipeline projects, and he dismisses "burdensome regulations" on miners and drillers and wants to open up more federal land for them. He also toys with tax policies that favor exports and penalize imports, with energy possibly included.