Oct. 21, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC
Liam Denning, Bloomberg News
President Donald Trump has spent most of the year on a war footing, and not just in Iran. He has repeatedly invoked the Defense Production Act, passed in 1950 at the outbreak of the Korean War, to advance his energy policy goals of elevating fossil fuels and sidelining clean technologies.
The latest example involves pushing New York state to take a new pipeline bringing natural gas from Pennsylvania to the northeast. Energy Secretary Chris Wright just announced up to $42 million of DPA funding for permitting and pre-construction work for the 125-mile Constitution Pipeline. Whether this meaningfully advances the project is open to question…