Only hours after being sworn into office, President Donald Trump carried out a series of executive orders terminating much of former President Joe Biden’s climate agenda, which includes declaring an “energy emergency.”
The breadth of the decisions may well be the most dramatic shift in U.S. energy policy since the response to the ban on oil exports from Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 1973.
Biden had signed a number of executive orders after being sworn into office, such as adding the U.S. back into the Paris Agreement, a nonbinding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions to keep temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. From there, much of his climate agenda rolled out in a series of rulemaking actions over the past four years, including appliance efficiency standards, a pause on liquified natural gas export permits, and the EPA’s power plant rule.
Trump’s “energy emergency” includes support for the mining of critical minerals for national security, emergency approvals for energy resources on public lands and facilitating the building of energy infrastructure. In a separate executive order, Trump set forth rules for developing energy resources in Alaska.
Another order encourages exploration and production on offshore drilling, a revocation of one of Biden’s final anti-fossil fuel actions. The order also rescinds many of Biden’s climate-related executive orders. Trump also pulled the U.S. back out of the Paris Agreement. […]
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