Rising demand for natural gas in the United States and a supportive administration are prompting U.S. natural gas producers and pipeline giants to begin to actively consider proposing new pipelines to bring more gas supply from America’s top gas-producing region, Appalachia, to consumers. “We are actively evaluating opportunities to expand infrastructure,” Amy Rogers, a spokeswoman for one of the top U.S. natural gas producers, EQT, told Reuters. “Enhancing pipeline capacity is essential to unlocking Appalachian supply,”…