Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy” Declaration Ends Biden’s War on Appliances
Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump unleashed a blizzard of executive orders implementing his America First agenda.
Much of the focus was on his directive to exit the Paris Climate Accord and to halt funding to globalist economy-crushing environmental initiatives. Trump also put a pause on offshore wind projects and other wind-energy projects out of real concerns they are adversely impacting the nation’s environmental health.
But no less important was one order with a short but sweet name: Unleashing American Energy.
America is blessed with an abundance of energy and natural resources that have historically powered our Nation’s economic prosperity. In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted high energy costs upon our citizens. These high energy costs devastate American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security.It is thus in the national interest to unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy and natural resources. This will restore American prosperity —- including for those men and women who have been forgotten by our economy in recent years. It will also rebuild our Nation’s economic and military security, which will deliver peace through strength.
This order followed one declaring a “National Energy Emergency.”
The declaration is far-reaching and includes measures to expedite energy infrastructure delivery and emergency approvals by agencies to help the nation effectively take advantage of our resources and achieve energy security.
In the executive order, the President’s sweeping new energy policy is to “encourage energy exploration and production on Federal lands and waters, including on the Outer Continental Shelf, in order to meet the needs of our citizens and solidify the United States as a global energy leader long into the future.”The President’s executive order also aims to establish the U.S. position as the leading producer and processor of non-fuel minerals, including rare earth minerals, “which will create jobs and prosperity at home, strengthen supply chains for the United States and its allies, and reduce the global influence of malign and adversarial states.”The new policy also includes the elimination of the “electric vehicle (EV) mandate” and the promotion of true consumer choice, which is essential for economic growth and innovation, by removing regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access. The measure would ensure a level regulatory playing field for consumer choice in vehicles, the Trump White House said.
The executive order includes many other provisions to help support the energy industry and infrastructure, as well as permit the exploration and tapping of new resources by:
- Expediting and simplifying the energy permitting process, including for liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects.
- Disbanding the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
- Rescinding several of Biden’s executive orders on energy and the environment.
- Directing the Department of Energy to restart the review of LNG export applications.
- Seeking to reduce regulatory burdens on domestic energy production and use.
And all the funding for Biden’s de facto Green New Deal has been slashed.
And the War on American Appliances is over.
The best part: Trump’s order demands that real science be utilized rulemaking, as well as forces agencies to evaluate the likely consequences of their regulations on this nation. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now under this order:
The calculation of the “social cost of carbon” is marked by logical deficiencies, a poor basis in empirical science, politicization, and the absence of a foundation in legislation. Its abuse arbitrarily slows regulatory decisions and, by rendering the United States economy internationally uncompetitive, encourages a greater human impact on the environment by affording less efficient foreign energy producers a greater share of the global energy and natural resource market.Consequently, within 60 days of the date of this order, the Administrator of the EPA shall issue guidance to address these harmful and detrimental inadequacies, including consideration of eliminating the “social cost of carbon” calculation from any Federal permitting or regulatory decision.
I am grateful much of Trump’s personal energy is directed an protecting, preserving, and expanding our energy resources….and saving the gas stoves!
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