Unleashing American Energy
Broadly reverses Biden-era energy and climate policies. Rescinds the social cost of carbon metric, reverses the moratorium on new LNG export terminals, lifts restrictions on federal land drilling, and orders agencies to identify all regulations that burden domestic energy production for potential repeal.
Section by Section
What each section does, and how they differ.
Directs sweeping energy deregulation and streamlined permitting to unleash domestic energy dominance.
Makes it the policy to maximize domestic energy development and production through deregulation and efficient permitting.
Directs all agencies to review regulations and policies burdening energy development, develop action plans to suspend or rescind within 30 days.
Revokes 12 prior executive orders related to climate and environmental justice, terminates American Climate Corps, rescinds Green Bank authority.
Revokes EO 11991, directs CEQ to provide guidance on NEPA implementation within 30 days, proposes rescinding CEQ NEPA regulations, establishes working group for consistent implementing regulations.
Directs agencies to adhere only to legislated environmental requirements and use robust methodologies, disbands Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
Prioritizes efficiency and certainty in permitting over other objectives, directs use of general permitting and permit-by-rule.
Accelerates renewables development timelines and ensures consistency with national interest priority.
Standard boilerplate: preserves existing agency authority, conditions the order on appropriations, and creates no enforceable private rights.
Linked Court Cases (1)
EO 14154 directed agencies to end funding for environmental justice programs including ECJ; EPA relied on this as basis for terminating the ECJ Block Grant Program. Court held termination was illegal.