President Donald Trump’s executive orders will provide US pipeline companies with the certainty they need to advance their natural gas infrastructure projects through federal and state permitting reviews, the top executive of Williams said. Williams CEO Alan Armstrong applauded the executive orders during a Thursday earnings conference call. On April 10, Trump signed a pair of orders designed to streamline reviews of energy infrastructure projects. One of them pushed for changes to guidelines and regulations from the US Environmental Protection Agency related to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, which gives states the authority to issue water quality certificates. “Everyone recognized that the so-called ‘guidelines’ — and I’ll use quotes around that — put […]