Full Title: EXECUTIVE ORDER PROMOTING ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Author(s): Donald Trump
Publisher(s): The White House
Publication Date: March 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
Source: (The Heartland Institute)
President Donald Trump has determined it is in the national interest to promote clean and safe development of America’s vast energy resources, while at the same time avoiding regulatory burdens that unnecessarily encumber energy production, constrain economic growth, and prevent job creation, while simultaneously ensuring access to affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean electric power supplies. Because of this, Trump signed a number of executive orders aimed at producing domestic energy independence.
Trump issued executive orders to end a moratorium on new coal leases on federal land. A second order says federal agencies should no longer consider the climate change when implementing federal contracts, or issuing permits, or in formulating planned uses of federal lands, or use speculative climate impacts of a proposed action to halt it. Trump also directed EPA to conduct an expedited review of the Obama administration’s clean power plan with the expectation it will rescind or significantly reshape its limits on carbon dioxide emissions from existing and new power plants.