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Doug Burgum: “There's $1.5 trillion of projects that have been…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks at CERAWeek in Houston — 3/25/2026

Published | Video Starts at 09:58

How do you gauge the process progress? Because that is for everybody, or at least so many people here, whatever industry they're in is such a … There's $1.5 trillion of projects that have been approved...that they can't get a permit. … our growth if we could streamline permitting. And the permitting, you know, when we're in a global competition to build great things quickly, America could always do that. (09:58–10:16)

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Asserts that $1.5 trillion worth of approved projects are stalled due to permitting issues.

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