A One-Year Assessment of Policy Changes Affecting the Midstream Sector

Public Policy & Regulation attorneys Jim Noe, Elizabeth Craddock and Kamran Mohiuddin authored a World Pipelines article examining how shifting federal policies, court decisions and agency actions are reshaping the U.S. midstream landscape. They analyze two pipeline-specific bills, the Promoting Cross-Border Energy Infrastructure Act and the Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2025, and contextualize these legislative developments within a broader backdrop of permitting reform, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scope clarification, executive orders on energy dominance and the expansive One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB). The piece explores implications for project timelines, costs and materials tariffs, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) streamlining efforts and the outlook for 2026, concluding that pipelines remain policy-adjacent but highly affected by upstream activity, trade policy and evolving regulatory processes.

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