A diverse crowd of all ages showed up to protest against gas pipelines. Photographer: Scott Rossi/Bloomberg Bloomberg RSS

(Bloomberg) — As he sat down for dinner with executives from Williams Cos. back in May, Wall Street fund manager Henry Hoffman was skeptical about the pipeline operator’s prospects. Endless permitting issues and delays had plagued new natural gas infrastructure in the US for years and made some projects impossible to build.

Yet as the evening went on, Hoffman recalled, he was struck by the confidence in the room — that, finally, things were going Williams’ way. Something had clearly shifted. Most notably: Williams’ Northeast pipeline ambitions, long-stalled projects to carry shale gas from Pennsylvania into the region, are back from the dead under the Trump administ

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