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Documents obtained by Canadian media outlet CBC have shown that President-elect Joe Biden will sign an executive order to revoke the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline on Wednesday, his inauguration day. Although, according to the LA Times, “Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said the transition team had no comment on the pipeline.”  The Keystone XL Pipeline has been a widely controversial issue since its inception and has sparked protests, legal actions, and executive orders from Presidents Obama and Trump.

Leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel are planning to sign an agreement early in the new year for the construction of a new natural gas pipeline. In Athens on January 2^nd, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiades and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will meet to sign the agreement. The deal will be finalized at a later date dependent on Italy’s signature, they have already expressed displeasure with the project earlier this year. The pipeline will transverse the Mediterranean from the Levantine Basin offshore gas reserve of Israel, to the Greek Island of Crete and the Greek Mainland, then to Italy. The EastMed Pipeline project has an estimated completion date of 2025.

As of August 24^th, the 713 mile long Rover pipeline was approved to become fully operational beginning September 1st from the supply lines in Burgettstown, Pa and Majorsville, WV.

Natural gas continues to be an increasingly important force within the United States Energy sector, and Pennsylvania is a cornerstone state for natural Gas production.  According to the EIA, only Texas is responsible for producing more natural gas than Pennsylvania in the United States.  Mass energy producers need mass distribution networks, and the Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline out of northeastern Pennsylvania will help distribute natural gas all along the eastern seaboard as far south as Alabama.