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This data was downloaded from the public version of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) ORM permit database (https://permits.ops.usace.army.mil/orm-public) on February 13, 2025.

Emergency permit data was downloaded by selecting "Emergency", clicking on "Table View", and clicking on "EO 14156 Declaring a National Energy Emergency" in the "Filter by Event" dropdown menu. After downloading, the data was filtered to only include projects with the status "not finalized" (i.e., a permitting decision from USACE is still pending).

USACE permits can be divided into two groups: general permits and individual permits. General permits* are for projects with smaller impacts, while individual permits are for projects with larger impacts. Individual permits can be further divided into letters of permission and standard permits, with standard permits corresponding to projects with the largest impacts. Tab "EO 14156 Emergency - All" includes all permit types, while tab "EO 14156 Emergency - Standard" only includes standard permits with additional information gathered from other sources. The number of pending emergency permits in EIP's press release (688) was calculated by counting all permits in "EO 14156 Emergency - All".

Other data in tab "EO 14156 Emergency - Standard":
- Permit action is determined based on whether a given project's DA number appears in the "Final IP" table in the database (i.e., whether a permit has been issued for the DA number yet). If it does, the permitting action being reviewed by USACE is a modification; otherwise, it is an initial permit. (Note: There is one exception to this--the Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel project (LRE-2010-00463-56), which has a complicated permitting history.)
- Environmental assessment (EA) data was taken from the "NEPA EA" table in the database and matched to projects using DA numbers.
- Public notices were searched for on USACE district websites as well as using Google, and public notices for some projects did not appear to be available online. If a public notice was issued before the "Begin Date" listed for a given project (i.e., when USACE received a permit application), it was ignored because it corresponds to a different permitting action under the same DA number. (The same DA number is typically used for the initial permit and permit modifications.)

*In the USACE database, general permits are designated by naming the specific general permit in the "PNN" column (e.g., NWP 58) and the "Permit Type" column is left blank. (For individual permits, the "Permit Type" column is filled out and the "PNN" is left blank.) To make it easier to identify permit types in the tab "EO 14156 Emergency - All", the "Permit Type" column has been filled out for general permits. There are 23 projects where the "Permit Type" is unknown because both the "Permit Type" and "PNN" columns are blank.
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