( April 24, 2025, 12:29 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on April 23 announced that the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) “will implement emergency permitting procedures to accelerate the development of domestic energy resources and critical minerals,” which means that new permitting procedures will be reduced from “a multi-year process down to just 28 days at most.”...