Unleashing American Energy

It orders a government-wide rollback of policies deemed to burden domestic energy and mining, accelerates permitting and exports, and pauses major climate and infrastructure funding. It also revokes 12 prior executive orders and ends several climate-focused offices and programs.

What the order does ​

• Requires agencies to identify and begin suspending, revising, or rescinding burdensome energy, mining, vehicle, and appliance policies within 30 days.
• Revokes 12 executive orders covering climate policy, environmental justice, clean vehicles, federal sustainability, forests, refugees, science advice, financial risk, and Inflation Reduction Act implementation.
• Terminates the American Climate Corps, abolishes specified climate offices, and directs agencies to end related activities, agreements, and contracts.
• Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to propose rescinding its environmental-review regulations and coordinate faster, simpler federal permitting.
• Orders agencies to expedite permits, including through emergency authorities for projects considered essential to the economy or national security.
• Disbands the greenhouse-gas social-cost working group, withdraws its guidance, and directs the Environmental Protection Agency to consider eliminating social-cost-of-carbon calculations from federal decisions.
• Pauses covered Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure-law disbursements, including electric-vehicle charging funds, pending agency reviews and White House approval.
• Restarts reviews of liquefied natural gas export applications and establishes deadlines for certain deepwater LNG port licensing decisions.
• Directs agencies to reduce barriers to domestic mineral extraction and processing, reassess land withdrawals, map mineral deposits, review critical-mineral needs, and examine foreign trade and forced-labor risks.
• Seeks to remove federal support and emissions policies viewed as favoring electric vehicles over gasoline-powered vehicles.

Who it affects ​

• Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, hydropower, biofuel, pipeline, LNG, mining, and mineral-processing companies.
• Automakers, electric-vehicle and charging businesses, appliance manufacturers, and consumers choosing vehicles or household products.
• States, localities, contractors, and grant recipients relying on paused climate, transportation, energy, or infrastructure funding.
• Federal employees, offices, contractors, and participants connected to terminated climate programs.
• Communities and project sponsors involved in federal environmental reviews, permitting, public-land development, or energy infrastructure.