Three weeks after the Nov. 5, 2024, election that ushered President Donald Trump back into power, Sanya Carley, the faculty director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, and co-author of the book Power Lines: The Human Costs of American Energy in Transition, penned an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer with a series of predictions that proved to be prophetic.
On his campaign promise to “drill, baby, drill,” she forecasted, “President Trump will prioritize executive orders — likely in his first few days in office — that open more federal lands to oil and gas leasing and reduce the permitting and other regulatory requirements associated with drilling and extraction operations.”
