U.S. energy project permitting slows amid layoffs of Federal employees
March 13, 2025
(Oil Price) – The mass layoffs of federal employees is leaving the process of critical energy projects permitting understaffed and slowed in various oil-producing U.S. areas, Reuters reports, quoting agency representatives and state officials. The newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is axing the federal workforce on a mass scale. Among the agencies hit by the layoffs
