Observers Say Wall Street, Permitting To Limit Trump’s ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ Push

January 30, 2025
Lawyers and energy experts are warning that President Donald Trump faces several potential hurdles to achieving his broad goal of “unleashing” domestic energy, including that private companies might not want to produce as much oil and gas as Trump might prefer due to their concerns about maintaining healthy profits. “We are not a petrostate,” said Kate Gordon, CEO of the climate advocacy group California Forward and a former Biden administration Energy Department official, during a Jan. 29 Resources for the...


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