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    Executive Actions Affecting Energy

    2025 Presidential Actions
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    February 14, 2025

    Establishing the National Energy Dominance Council

    An EO establishing the National Energy Dominance Council to advise the President on energy policy and provide recommendations for achieving US energy dominance. A fact sheet on the EO can be found on the White House website.
     
    January 20, 2025

    Unleashing American Energy

    An EO outlining a series of measures aimed at increasing domestic energy production and utilization of natural resources. The EO mandates an immediate review of agency actions that potentially burden the development of domestic energy resources, revokes 13 energy-related EOs from the Biden administration, disbands the American Climate Corps, resumes reviews of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects, instructs agency leaders to prioritize domestic mining and processing and includes provisions to streamline the permitting process under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It also includes a section titled “Terminating the Green New Deal” that directs an immediate pause on the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) or the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). A memorandum providing guidance with regard to the disbursement freeze can be found on the White House website.

     
    January 20, 2025

    Declaring a National Energy Emergency

    An EO directing federal agency leadership to exercise lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the production of domestic energy resources and to expedite the completion of all authorized and appropriated infrastructure, energy, environmental and natural resources projects. The EO further directs the Secretary of the Army to provide a report on actions to facilitate the nation’s energy supply that may be subject to emergency treatment and directs the Secretaries of Interior and Energy to coordinate an infrastructure assistance assessment.
     
    January 20, 2025

    Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential

    An EO directing all relevant agencies to prioritize the development of Alaska’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) potential, rescinding the cancellation of leases within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and directing the Secretary of the Interior to take several actions aimed at expediting the permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects in Alaska.
     
    January 20, 2025

    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

    A memorandum on wind energy leasing and permitting. The memorandum withdraws all areas within the Offshore Continental Shelf (OCS) from disposition for wind energy leasing and temporarily halts federal wind leasing and permitting practices for immediate review.