Pennsylvania can support the second administration of President Donald Trump in achieving energy goals, but not in a way that most people can think.
Trump’s fracture and promise “Drill, Baby, Drill” were staples from his speeches in the campaign in Pennsylvania last year, when he attacked this problem of the former vice president of Kamali Harris.
It is not clear if Trump will be It is able to significantly expand the fracturing industry in this state, but the best energy expert in Pennsylvania said that Trump can look at the huge offer of the community of Earth elements to support establish “Our position as a leading manufacturer and non -Fuel minerals.“
Last week, Trump signed several executive orders, which will probably have a deep impact on energy and the environment. This includes, among others: improving the process and removing the provisions on the production and employ of energy, including extraction and processing of non -Fuel minerals; rear energy efficiency standards; declaration of energy failure; End of leasing to wind farms; and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the Treaty on Climate Change.
The hard-wearing effects of Trump’s energy goals remain to see how Some rules may be more tough to gain support According to experts, for some executive orders for energy signed by Trump, they contain a vague language.
Here’s what Pennsylvania’s role in energy policy could look like.
“Drill, child, drill” in Pennsylvania – maybe not?
Some experts say that during the first 90 days Trump’s administration can make stern movements In order to augment drilling in the USA, but federal policy will probably have little influence on the state, said John Quigley, an older employee at the Pennsylvania University Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.
Allegheny National Forest is the majority of federal own land in Pennsylvania, but the federal government does not have mineral rights at 93% of this land, said Quigley, which served as Secretary for Protection Pennsylvania under the command of the democratic governor Ed Rendell and the Secretary for Environmental Protection under the Democratic Governor Tom Wolf.
Most of the bands in the USA are on private land, but Trump’s second term It can allow more drilling permits renting to federal areas. Quigley said that this could reduce prices and reduce industry profits.
Trump pointed to the executive order that he plans to identify and produce energy in the lands, regardless of whether they are federal property. The administration of former president Joe Biden pressed on renewable energy, but never promoted the ban on fracturing, issuing more permits for oil and natural gas on federal grounds than Trump during his first term.
Pennsylvania “looks at higher energy prices because of the” drill, child, drill “approach and this is irony. Quigley said that we would again bear higher costs for consumers, companies, industries that can affect employment, gross domestic product and the environment.
When asked about Trump’s plans regarding fracturing in Pennsylvania, a spokesman for the White House said in a statement: “President Trump announced a national energy accident [last week] And he issued several energy executive orders to immediately start reversing the harmful and brief -sighted policies of the previous administration, which led to the wrong supply of energy and infrastructure, and ultimately higher energy prices for Americans. “
Like elements of uncommon lands in Pennsylvania, they can support Trump’s purposes
While Trump may not be able to expand the fracturing in this state, the White House could put Pennsylvania on one of the other natural offers.
One of the executive orders of Trump, entitled “Unleasing American Energy”, He returns the ambitions of Trump’s administration to determine its dominance in the development of non -feel minerals. The White House claims that this goal “will create jobs and prosperity at home, strengthen the supply chains for the United States and their allies and reduce the global influence of malicious and opposite countries.”
Pennsylvania has a wide range of rare lands known as lantanides, From at least 1850. And materials – such as carbon waste or steel slag – can be found in the whole condition, including in Western Pennsylvania and in Luzerne and Schuylkill, perhaps helping Trump’s administration in reaching reference, said Quigley.
If the United States develops the technology of “economic separation” of rare lands, it can open opportunities for new jobs and companies in Pennsylvania when cleaning contaminated areas where there are elements such as abandoned mines, said Quigley.
Elements are also key components of magnets, batteries and various electronic devices.
Quigley said that the employ of elements of uncommon earth for energy production will probably be a bilateral problem. In February 2024, the US Energy Department under the Biden administration announced over $ 17 million funding from bilateral infrastructure law This was aimed at financing projects that develop key materials from coal and coal by -products.
Staff Writer Frank Kummer contributed to this article.
