As America Votes, These Big Energy Projects Hang in the Balance

Harris and Trump have both touted the promise of lower energy bills while campaigning for president — but they’ve laid out starkly different visions for how to get them.

Former President Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines while in office.

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The outcome of next week’s US presidential election is poised to have profound implications for a handful of multi-billion-dollar energy projects.

Republican Donald Trump, who has vowed to end climate policies he’s dubbed Washington’s “green new scam,” has pledged to get producers pumping more oil and gas to bring down energy costs. “They’ll be drilling so much,” Trump saidBloomberg Terminal at a rally last week in Greenville, NC. “If they drill themselves out of business, I don’t give a damn, right? We’re going to get your prices down so low.”