An open letter to President Trump on the Northeast Resupply Enhancement Project:
Dear President Trump,
In a recent post on X and its associated memo to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Secretary Burgum cited the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle Protection Act as a guiding framework for safeguarding America’s natural heritage during energy infrastructure reviews. I commend that approach in principle, and want to call attention to one project in particular that stands in direct conflict with that vision: the proposed Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline in the waters of New York.
The proposed NESE pipeline would deliver fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New Jersey and New York via a new 23.4-mile underwater pipeline segment running through the New York-New Jersey Harbor, just of