The first few days of President Trump’s second administration delivered a fusillade of executive orders about energy and climate policy. At first, what stands out is their many contradictions.
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President Trump’s Day One executive order declaring an “energy emergency” is political hyperbole, some say, even if they agree with the general thrust. But the energy situation does present real urgency.
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We often talk about history repeating itself, but rarely have we seen it as clearly as we do now. In the 1970s, America’s economy was in disaster mode, plagued by historic levels of inflation and stagnant growth.
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President Donald Trump’s sweeping Day One energy executive orders also reached into the gears of government to boost the prospects of a single company with a floundering liquefied natural gas project.
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As promised, President Donald Trump began reversing the country’s energy policies his first day in office with a spate of orders largely favoring oil, gas and coal. But there is one renewable energy that did find favor: geothermal.
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President Trump’s picks to lead the nation’s energy and environment-focused agencies all sailed through committee votes on Thursday morning.
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The ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling President Biden put in place on his way out of office doesn’t apply to federal waters off the Louisiana coast, but state Attorney General Liz Murrill is challenging the action she calls “blatantly illegal.”
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President Trump’s repudiation of renewable-energy technologies stands to make the United States an outlier in the world.
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President Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a flurry of executive orders issued Monday. But the document is not an emergency for all forms of energy, it's mostly supporting the production of domestic fossil fuels.
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