美国能源监管机构提议建立一项计划，以加快全国天然气出口设施扩建的审批速度。
联邦能源监管委员会（FERC）周四提议，将液化天然气（LNG）出口终端扩建申请的通知和抗议期限限制为60天或90天。
U.S. energy regulators have proposed establishing a program that would speed up approvals for expanding the nation’s gas export facilities The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposed Thursday to limit notice and protest periods to either 60 or 90 days for requested expansions to liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminals.
FERC主席劳拉·斯韦特（R）表示，此举将“使国家能够更快地扩大现有设施规模，以供应急需的盟友”。
FERC Chair Laura Swett (R) said the move would “enable the country to scale up its existing facilities more quickly to supply our allies who are in desperate need.”
她补充说，该行动将“维持安全和环境保护”。
She added that the action would “maintain safety and environmental protections.”
委员会还提议，不再要求计划中的天然气项目在环境审查过程中提交某些空气污染信息。
The commission also proposed to no longer require planned gas projects to submit certain air pollution information as part of the environmental review process.
具体而言，委员会正考虑取消空气扩散模型，该模型用于模拟项目排放如何与其他大气污染相互作用以确定空气质量影响。
Specifically, the commission is looking to omit air dispersion models, which simulate how a project’s emissions may interact with other atmospheric pollution to determine air quality impacts.
“这些模型一次又一次证明是混淆、延误和诉讼风险的不必要来源，”斯韦特说。
“These models have proven time and again to be an unnecessary source of confusion, delay, and litigation risk,” Swett said.
然而，FERC另一位委员朱迪·张（D）持不同意见，称这种建模“是我们了解我们所批准项目可能的局部和区域空气影响的最佳工具”。
However, fellow FERC commissioner Judy Chang (D) disagreed, saying this type of modeling is “the best tool we have for understanding the likely local and regional air impacts of the projects we permit.”
委员会的这两项举措遭到环保倡导者的反对。
Both moves by the commission received pushback from environmental advocates.
“FERC进一步快速推进有害的LNG发展，同时削减天然气开发商提交建模以了解甲烷气体项目局部空气质量影响的要求，这是不可接受的，”塞拉俱乐部“超越肮脏燃料”运动的立法与倡导副总裁克莱尔·多纳在一份书面声明中说。
“It is unconscionable for FERC to further fast-track harmful LNG development and also cut requirements for gas developers to submit modeling to understand the local air quality impacts of methane gas projects,” Claire Dorner, Sierra Club's associate legislative and advocacy director of its "Beyond Dirty Fuels" campaign, said in a written statement.
“削弱这些防护措施将使我们历史性的高能源价格雪上加霜，加剧对当地生态系统和社区的伤害，并恶化气候危机，”多纳说。
“Eroding these guardrails will make our historically high energy prices even worse, increase harm to local ecosystems and communities, and exacerbate the climate crisis,” Dorner said.
FERC由总统任命的委员组成，但技术上独立于特朗普政府。
FERC is made up of presidentially appointed commissioners but is technically independent from the Trump administration.
它由三名共和党人和两名民主党人组成。
It is comprised of three Republicans and two Democrats.