A group led by a member of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 transition team launched an initiative Tuesday aimed at highlighting the tactics environmental groups use to protest against pipelines.
The campaign — known as the Pipeline Protection Project — intends to “hold green activist groups accountable for their efforts to stop the building of new pipelines,” the conservative American Energy Alliance said in a news release.
The project’s first steps involve “talking about the importance of energy security” and the role pipelines play in that equation, said Tom Pyle, president of the alliance, in an interview. He worked on the Trump transition eight years ago and the American Energy Alliance endorsed Trump last month.
“We just decided that we were going to take our efforts to another level and try to provide some rapid response communication to some of the activities” of environmental groups, Pyle said.