Executive Order Tracker: Energy Actions
Below are brief analyses of relevant Administrative Actions—including Executive Orders (EOs), Proclamations, Memoranda, and Guidance—issued by President Trump, ordered with the most recent Actions first. Expand each item by clicking on it to learn more.
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Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy
April 9, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Directs selected agencies to issue a sunset rule effective not later than September 30, 2025, that inserts a sunset date into selected energy regulations. The sunset date will be one year after the effective date of the sunset rule.
For selected new energy regulations published by selected agencies, it must include a sunset date that is not more than five years into the future. The EO directs that the recission of regulations under this EO does not apply to the ten for one regulatory requirement in Executive Order 14192. - Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of selected agencies
- Topics: Deregulation
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Reinvigorating America's Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241
April 8, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: The EO directs, in part:
- The Chair of the National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC) to designate coal as a “mineral” as defined in section 2 of Executive Order 14241 of March 20, 2025;
- Selected agency heads to submit a report to the President that identifies coal resources and reserves on Federal lands, assesses impediments to mining said coal resources, and proposes policies to address such impediments and ultimately enable the mining of such coal resources by either private or public actors;
- Selected agency heads to prioritize coal leasing and related activities as the primary land use for the public lands with coal resources identified in the aforementioned report and expedite coal leasing in these areas;
- The Secretary of the Interior to acknowledge the end of the Jewell Moratorium, which paused coal leasing on Federal lands;
- Certain agency heads to pursue action that supports coal as an energy source, such as identifying guidance, regulations, programs, and policies within their respective executive department or agency that hinder coal production and electricity generation;
- The Secretary of Commerce to take all necessary and appropriate actions to promote and identify export opportunities for coal and coal technologies and facilitate international offtake agreements for United States coal;
- Within 30 days of this EO, each agency to identify to the Council on Environmental Quality any existing and potential categorical exclusions pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act, increased reliance on and adoption of which by other agencies pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4336c could further the production and export of coal;
- Certain agency heads to determine whether coal or metallurgical coal used in the production of steel meets the definition of a “critical material” under the Energy Act of 2020;
- Certain agency heads to identify regions where coal powered infrastructure is available and suitable for supporting AI data centers; and
- The Secretary of Energy to take all necessary actions to accelerate the development, deployment, and commercialization of coal technologies.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Chair of the NEDC; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Agriculture; Administrator of the EPA; Secretary of Transportation; Secretary of Labor; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of State; Secretary of Commerce; Chief Executive Officer of the International Development Finance Corporation; the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; heads of all relevant executive departments and agencies
- Topics: Coal
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy
April 8, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Extends the compliance date for certain coal plants to comply with the final rule entitled, National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review of the Residual Risk and Technology Review, 89 Fed. Reg. 38508 (May 7, 2024). As such, for coal plants subject to this proclamation, they will continue to be subject to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that existed prior to the aforementioned rule.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: N/A
- Topics: Energy; coal
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Protecting American Energy from State Overreach
April 8, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Directs the Attorney General to identify all state and local laws, regulations, causes of action, policies, and practices burdening the identification, development, production, or use of domestic energy resources that are or may be unconstitutional, preempted by Federal law, or otherwise unenforceable. Directs the Attorney General to take steps to stop the enforcement of the aforementioned laws and to report to the President within 60 days on their actions.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Energy
- Topics: Power grid
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid
April 8, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Directs the Secretary of Energy to:
- Streamline, systemize, and expedite processes for issuing emergency orders under the Federal Power Act during forecasted grid interruptions;
- Develop a uniform methodology to analyze current and anticipated reserve margins for all regions of the bulk power system regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and to use this methodology to identify current and anticipated regions with reserve margins below acceptable thresholds; and
- Use the aforementioned methodology to create a process that assesses reserve margins on a regular basis and identify which generation resources in a region are critical to system reliability.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of Energy
- Topics: Power grid
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
EO 14213: Establishing the National Energy Dominance Council
February 14, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Establishes the National Energy Dominance Council within the Executive Office of the President.
Establishes membership of the National Energy Dominance Council. The Secretary of the Interior, as Chair of the Council, shall serve as a standing member of the National Security Council.
Creates a number of requirements for the National Energy Dominance Council, including advising the President on how best to exercise his authority to produce more energy to make America energy dominant, providing a recommended National Energy Dominance Strategy to produce more energy that includes long-range goals for achieving energy dominance, recommending a plan to raise awareness on a national level of matters related to energy dominance, and advising the President on identifying and ending practices that raise the cost of energy. - Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Defense; Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Transportation; Administrator of EPA; Director of OMB; U.S. Trade Representative; Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy; Assistant to the President for Economic Policy; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and the heads of other executive departments and agencies that may be designated by the President.
- Topics: Energy; energy production
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Requires heads of all executive departments and agencies to deliver “emergency price relief” which includes appropriate actions to “eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances and eliminate harmful, coercive ‘climate’ policies that increase the costs of food and fuel.”
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all executive departments and agencies and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
- Topics: Household costs; climate policies
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
EO 14153: Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Generally, directs department and agency heads to promote natural energy resource development in Alaska. Promulgates policies regarding Alaska Native Corporations.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of all executive departments and agencies with specific direction given to the Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of the Army, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and the Secretary of Commerce
- Topics: Land management; natural resources
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
EO 14162: Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Agreement and any other agreement made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Revokes the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; the Secretary of State; Secretary of the Treasury; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of HHS; Secretary of Energy; Secretary of Agriculture; Administrator of the EPA; Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development; Chief Executive Officer of the International Development Finance Corporation; Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; Director of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; and President of the Export-Import Bank
- Topics: Treaties; climate change
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
EO: Unleashing American Energy
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Sets forth energy policies of the Administration, including “to encourage energy exploration and production on federal lands,” “to establish the U.S. as the leading producer and processor of non-fuel minerals,” and to ensure that the global impact of a rule is separately impacted from the domestic impact. Requires agency heads to ensure past agency actions are consistent with the aforementioned energy policies. Revokes numerous energy/climate change related EOs issued during the Biden Administration and terminates the American Climate Corps. Hastens the environmental permitting process and forbids the use of “arbitrary or ideologically motivated” studies/methodologies for environmental permitting. Requires agencies to stop the disbursement funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Directs the Secretary of the Energy to restart reviews of applications for approvals of liquified natural gas export projects as quickly as possible. Directs certain agency and department heads to identify agency actions that impose undue burdens on domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals and includes assessing public lands withdrawals, among other things.
- Notes: Section 7 of this EO, and the agency actions that followed, is subject to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case number 1:25-cv-00737). Section 7 of the EO, among other provisions, ordered agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds appropriated” through the IRA or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Sections 2 and 7 of this EO that direct the freezing or termination of federal grants are subject to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (case number 2:25-cv-02152). - Agencies Receiving Instructions: All agency heads; the Attorney General; the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality; the Secretaries of Defense, State, Labor, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Homeland Security; the Administrator of the EPA; Director of the National Economic Council (NEC); Director of OMB; Administrator of the Maritime Administration; and the U.S. Trade Representative
- Topics: Energy production; non-fuel minerals; environmental permitting; IRA; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
EO 14156: Declaring a National Energy Emergency
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Declares a national emergency based off of the “United States’ insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to our Nation’s economy, national security, and foreign policy.”
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies; Administrator of EPA; Secretary of the Army, acting through the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Commerce; Secretary of Defense; and Secretary of Energy
- Topics: Energy and critical minerals
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
January 20, 2025 — Details ⮟
- Overview: Withdraws from disposition for wind energy leasing all areas within the Offshore Continental Shelf (OCS). Provides that specified agencies shall not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind projects pending the completion of a comprehensive assessment and review of Federal wind leasing and permitting practices.
- Agencies Receiving Instructions: Secretary of the Interior; Secretary of Energy; Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Attorney General; Secretary of Agriculture; Secretary of Commerce; and Secretary of the Treasury
- Topics: Wind leasing; wind projects
- Learn More: Visit The White House website.
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