President Donald Trump talks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, before signing an executive order on the Dakota Access pipeline. (AP Photo/Evan... (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump moved to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines Tuesday, a pair of projects that were blocked by the Obama administration due in part to environmental concerns. Both orders are subject to renegotiations of the agreements. 
 
 Trump also signed a notice requiring the materials for the pipelines to be constructed in the United States, though it was unclear how he planned to enforce the measure. 
 
 "From now we are going to start making pipelines in the United States," Trump said from the Oval Office. 
 
 Looking ahead, Trump announced that he planned to nominate a justice for the Supreme Court next week, moving swiftly to try to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The president was summoning top senators to the White House later Tuesday to discuss his upcoming nomination. 
 
 Trump has sought to focus his first full week in office on jobs and the economy. Republicans, as well as some unions, have cited the pipeline projects as prime opportunities for job growth. 
 
 Former President Barack Obama stopped the proposed Keystone XL pipeline in late 2015, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal that was a centerpiece of his environmental legacy. The pipeline would run from Canada to Nebraska where it would connect to existing lines running to U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast. The U.S. government needs to approve the pipeline because it would cross the nation's northern border. 
 
 Separately, late last year, the Army Corps of Engineers declined to allow construction of the Dakota Access pipeline under Lake Oahe, saying alternative routes needed to be considered. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and its supporters say the project threatens drinking water and Native American sites, though Energy Transfer Partners, the company that wants to build the pipeline, disputes that and says the pipeline will be safe. 
 
 The pipeline is to carry North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. 
 
 Even as Trump moves to implement his agenda, he is still making false claims. 
 
 During a reception with lawmakers at the White House Monday evening, Trump claimed the reason he'd lost the popular vote to Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was that 3 million to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally had voted. That's according to a Democratic aide familiar with the exchange who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. 
 
 There is no evidence to support Trump's claim. He made a similar statement on Twitter in late November that he had won the Electoral College in a "landslide" and "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes but lost the electoral contest. 
 
 Trump's assertion appears to be part of a continuing pattern for him and his new administration in which falsehoods overshadow his outreach efforts. 
 
 On Tuesday, Trump summoned the heads of the big three American automakers, General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler, for a breakfast meeting at the White House. He pledged to scrap regulations and reduce taxes on corporations that keep jobs in the U.S., though he did not specify his plans for either. 
 
 His administration, he said, will "go down as one of the most friendly countries" for business. 
 
 Trump's actions signal a reset after a tumultuous weekend dominated by his and his spokesman's false statements about inauguration crowds and their vigorous complaints about media coverage of the celebrations. While Trump's advisers have long accepted his tendency to become fixated on seemingly insignificant issues, some privately concede that his focus on inauguration crowds was unhelpful on the opening weekend of his presidency. 
 
 In addition to his executive action on TPP, Trump signed memorandums freezing most federal government hiring — though he noted an exception for the military — and reinstating a ban on providing federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. The regulation, known as the "Mexico City Policy," has been a political volleyball, instituted by Republican administrations and rescinded by Democratic ones since 1984. 
 
 The actions were among the long list of steps candidate Trump pledged to take on his opening day as president. But other "Day One" promises were going unfulfilled, including plans to propose a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on members of Congress and terminating Obama's executive actions deferring deportations for some people living in the U.S. illegally. 
 
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 Associated Press writers Darlene Superville, Ken Thomas, Erica Werner, Jonathan Lemire and Jill Colvin contributed to this report. 
 
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 Follow Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC ||||| President Trump on Tuesday signed orders to advance construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. 
 
 The orders do not grant the final permits needed for the oil pipelines but will move both projects toward approval, a person familiar with the action said. 
 
 The Trump administration began to inform lawmakers starting late Monday that the orders were coming. 
 
 The orders fulfill Trump's campaign promise to approve both pipelines, which have staunch support from the oil industry and the GOP but are strongly opposed by Democrats and environmentalists. 
 
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 The White House did not provide more details. 
 
 “It certainly confirms his commitment both to the rule of law and to job creation and energy security, which is pretty critical,” said Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a close Trump ally whose state would contain segments of both pipelines. 
 
 Cramer called it a “pretty significant differentiation between the previous administration and this one.” 
 
 Former President Obama rejected Keystone in November 2015, citing the need to show international leadership on climate change. 
 
 If fully built by developer TransCanada Corp., Keystone would run from Alberta, Canada, which contains a bulk of that nation's oil sands, to the Gulf Coast in Texas, bringing heavy oil sands petroleum to refineries. 
 
 Last month, the Obama administration ordered a comprehensive environmental impact statement to be conducted on the Dakota Access pipeline before any decision could be made on building its final section below Lake Oahe in North Dakota. 
 
 The pipeline has been the subject of international protests that have fired up environmentalists and indigenous rights activists. 
 
 They say that the pipeline threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and further development of oil infrastructure threatens the climate. 
 
 The two projects require different approvals. Keystone needs a presidential permit to build across the Canadian border, while Dakota Access, developed by Energy Transfer Partners, needs an Army Corps of Engineers easement to build under Lake Oahe. 
 
 White House press secretary Sean Spicer, asked Monday about plans to approve Keystone and Dakota Access, said he was “not going to get in front of the president’s executive actions.” 
 
 But he went on to say that the projects are “areas where we can increase jobs, increase economic growth and tap into America’s energy supply more.” 
 
 The planned orders were first reported Tuesday by Bloomberg. 
 
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 Environmental regulations are “out of control,” President Donald Trump said Tuesday. 
 
 Speaking at a roundtable with automobile industry leaders, Trump announced “a very big push” from his administration to have companies produce products in the U.S. 
 
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 “Our friends that wanna build in the United States, they go many, many years and then they can’t get the environmental permit over something that nobody ever heard of before,” he said. “And it’s absolutely crazy. I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist. I believe in it. But it’s out of control.” 
 
 Trump said his administration will restore manufacturing jobs “big league,” slash taxes “very substantially” and curb unnecessary regulations. 
 
 “We want regulations, but we want real regulations that mean something,” he maintained, pledging to simplify the process for auto companies and other manufacturers that want to do business in the U.S. 
 
 Trump added that the U.S. will transform from “very inhospitable to extremely hospitable” and expressed confidence that America will go down in history as one of the friendliest nations in the world. 
 
 “We’re gonna make a very short process, and we’re going to either give you your permits or we’re not gonna give you your permits,” he said. “But you’re gonna know very quickly. And generally speaking, we’re gonna be giving you your permits. So we’re gonna be very friendly.” 
 
 Mark Fields, CEO of Ford Motor Company, later told reporters that the auto executives are encouraged by Trump’s economic policies, including his executive action Monday to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. 
 
 “We appreciate the president’s courage to walk away from a bad trade deal,” he said. “So I think as an industry, we’re excited about working together with the president and his administration on tax policies, on regulation and on trade, to really create a renaissance in American manufacturing.” 
 
 In addition to Fields, the roster of auto executives who met with Trump included Mary T. Barra of General Motors Company, former Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt of American Automotive Policy Council, Craig B. Glidden of General Motors Company, Roger Shane Karr of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Sergio Marchionne of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Ziad S. Ojakli of Ford Motor Company. 
 
 Tara Palmeri contributed to this report. ||||| Trump says he will demand a better deal and use of U.S. steel 
 
 President Donald Trump took steps to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, while demanding a renegotiation to get a better deal for the U.S. government. 
 
 Trump stopped short of green lighting construction on either pipeline but put a deadline on the government’s review of TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Keystone XL to transport Alberta oil sands crude to U.S. refineries. Trump also announced policies to encourage the use of American-made products in U.S. pipeline projects and to curtail federal environmental reviews for major infrastructure projects. 
 
 “If we’re going to build pipelines in the United States, the pipes should be made in the United States,” Trump said. 
 
 The moves, taken on Trump’s fourth full day in office, are a major departure from the Obama administration, which rejected the Keystone proposal in 2015 and has kept Dakota Access blocked since September. Environmentalists, concerned about climate change and damage to water and land, now face an executive branch that’s less sympathetic to their efforts. For the oil industry, it heralds more freedom to expand infrastructure and ease transportation bottlenecks. 
 
 White House spokesman Sean Spicer cast that possible renegotiation of the Dakota Access project as a way to address concerns by stakeholders, including the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is concerned about Native-American cultural sites and the safety of its water supply. 
 
 While both projects will create jobs and grow the economy, they also will enrich the companies behind them, Spicer told reporters. “If we’re going to do all these things to expedite these projects that go over or under American soil,” then Trump wants to make sure American taxpayers get “the best deal possible,” he said. 
 
 QuickTake: Tar Sands and the Environmental Debate Over Keystone 
 
 TransCanada closed 2.7 percent higher at C$64.24 in Toronto on Tuesday. Energy Transfer Equity LP and Energy Transfer Partners LP, the developers of the Dakota project, climbed 2 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively. 
 
 TransCanada is preparing its re-application and intends to submit it, the company said in a statement. 
 
 The documents signed Tuesday include an executive order designed to expedite “high-priority infrastructure projects.” Under the directive, Trump said projects that win that classification from the White House Council on Environmental Quality will be given swifter reviews, under “expedited procedures and deadlines for completion” of necessary environmental analysis. 
 
 A separate memo asks the Secretary of Commerce to develop strategies for streamlining permitting and reducing regulatory burdens for domestic manufacturers. 
 
 “We intend to fix our country, our bridges our roadways,” Trump said. “We can’t be in an environmental process for 15 years if a bridge is going to be falling down or if a highway is crumbling.” 
 
 Read more: Keystone’s Thousands of Jobs Fall to 20 When Opened 
 
 Trump also told the Commerce Department to develop a plan to force a “Buy America” requirement on all new pipelines, so they “use materials and equipment produced in the United States.” In a memo outlining the change, Trump said the rules should apply “to the maximum extent possible.” 
 
 About half of Keystone XL was set to be built with steel fabricated in the U.S., according to a 2012 breakdown from TransCanada of an earlier version of the project. Roughly a quarter was set to be supplied by Canada, TransCanada said at the time, with Italy and India providing the rest. Most of the Dakota Access pipeline is already finished, with 57 percent of the project manufactured in the United States. 
 
 Jack Gerard, head of the American Petroleum Institute, said he was “pleased to see the new direction being taken by this administration to recognize the importance of our nation’s energy infrastructure by restoring the rule of law in the permitting process that’s critical to pipelines and other infrastructure projects.” 
 
 Canada has not received any formal notice of action by Trump on the pipelines but still supports Keystone, a project for which Canadian approvals remain in place. 
 
 “It’s good for Canada and it’s particularly good for the people of Alberta,” Canada’s natural resources minister Jim Carr told reporters Tuesday in Calgary. 
 
 Environmental activists vowed to continue battling both projects. 
 
 The Standing Rock tribe said it “will take legal action to fight” Trump’s action, terming it a “politically motivated decision” that “violates the law.” 
 
 “President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights and provide a fair and reasonable pipeline process,” said Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “The existing pipeline route risks infringing on our treaty rights, contaminating our water and the water of 17 million Americans downstream.” 
 
 To accelerate the Dakota Access pipeline, Trump directed the Army secretary to reconsider its earlier decision to conduct deeper environmental scrutiny of the project. The Army Corps of Engineers should consider relying on an earlier, broader assessment from July instead, Trump said in a memo. Project foes would almost certainly challenge any decision by the Army Corps to abandon the environmental analysis ordered under the Obama administration. 
 
 Trump compelled similar action to speed permitting of Keystone XL, asking TransCanada to re-submit its application for the project and giving the State Department a 60-day deadline for determining whether the pipeline is in the U.S. national interest. In a memo, Trump asks the State Department to rely on an earlier environmental review of the project for its determination, rather than conducting new analysis that could take months or years. 
 
 The company’s plans for Keystone XL have already been vetted, with years of environmental scrutiny culminating in Obama’s 2015 decision rejecting the project. 
 
 Environmentalists’ Fight 
 
 The makeup of Keystone XL has come under scrutiny before. When the Senate considered legislation that would force approval of the project in 2015, Republicans blocked attempts to require the project be built with domestically produced steel. 
 
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 Environmentalists fiercely battled Keystone XL, making it a flashpoint in broader debates about U.S. energy policy and climate change. Landowners in the pipeline’s path have warned that a spill of dense crude could contaminate the Ogallala aquifer, a source of drinking water that stretches from Texas to South Dakota. And activists said it would promote further development of oil sands in Alberta, Canada that generally require more energy to extract. 
 
 Violent Protests 
 
 Dakota Access opponents say the pipeline would damage sites culturally significant to Native Americans and pose an environmental hazard where it crosses the Missouri River. Earlier this month, the Department of the Army withheld the final easement necessary for construction beneath the lake. 
 
 Swift approval of Dakota Access could reinvigorate the sometimes violent protests at the site of the proposed construction. 
 
 Josh Nelson, the deputy political director of the CREDO activist group said the action shows Trump is “in the pocket of big corporations and foreign oil interests.” 
 
 “Fierce grassroots activism has stopped these pipelines over and over again,” he said. “CREDO will do everything in its power to stop the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines, and keep dirty fossil fuels in the ground where they belong.” 
 
 Energy Infrastructure 
 
 Pipeline supporters said a final easement for the project would illustrate Trump’s commitment to building out energy infrastructure needed to ferry oil and gas around the U.S. Although Keystone XL would transport oil sands crude from Canada, some space on the line is slated to be filled by supplies from North Dakota’s Bakken shale play. 
 
 Dakota Access, likewise, is aimed at giving Bakken producers a new route to energy markets, allowing them to forgo more costly rail shipments that have been a backstop when existing pipes fill up. With a capacity of about 470,000 barrels a day, Dakota Access would ship about half of current Bakken crude production and enable producers to access Midwest and Gulf Coast markets. 
 
 “What we saw today was bold and decisive action by President Trump,” Terry O’Sullivan, general president of LiUNA, said in a conference call with reporters. “He said he was going to create middle-class jobs, and by what he did today, that’s exactly what he’s going to do.” 
 
 Energy Transfer owns the Dakota Access project with Phillips 66 and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP. Marathon Petroleum Corp. and Enbridge Energy Partners LP announced a venture in August that would also take a minority stake in the pipeline.
– Two controversial pipelines stopped by the Obama administration just got revived by the Trump administration. The president signed executive actions Tuesday to advance construction on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, reports the Hill. The moves do not equate to final approval, and the next steps are a little unclear. Both projects may need to be formally re-submitted, and they will still face tough fights from opposition lawmakers, environmentalists, and, in the case of the Dakota pipeline, Native American protesters. What's more, the agreements for both will have to be renegotiated, reports the AP. Trump, for instance, wants all the material for the pipelines to come from the US, a provision that will likely be tough to enforce. "This is not a done deal," says Bill McKibben, founder of the anti-Keystone group 350.org, per the New York Times. "The last time around, TransCanada was so confident they literally mowed the strip where they planned to build the pipeline, before people power stopped them. People will mobilize again." Still, TransCanada shares were climbing on the news, as were those for Energy Transfer Partners LP, which is behind the Dakota project, notes Bloomberg. Before signing the orders, Trump met with auto industry leaders and said environmental regulations were "out of control." He said it was "absolutely crazy" that it takes so long for permits to be granted. "I am, to a large extent, an environmentalist," he said, per Politico. "I believe in it. But it’s out of control."