by Nick Pope
The Daily Caller
President Donald Trump enacted numerous energy-focused executive policies on Monday, and energy sector experts described the actions as aiming directly at the heart of the Biden administration’s climate agenda in interviews with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Among other policy shifts, Trump declared that the U.S. will pull out of the Paris Climate Accords, freeze new offshore wind farms, rip up regulation forcing electric vehicles (EVs) on consumers and examine possible options to vacate the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health. The deluge of new policies sends a clear message that the U.S. is totally reversing course from the Biden administration’s affinity for climate regulation and green spending, with potential to massively change the American economy if executed in full…
Steve Milloy, a senior policy fellow for the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, believes that Trump’s intention to potentially rip up the 2009 endangerment finding is the most significant announced to date, “because if we get rid of that, climate idiocy across the government ends because then there’s nothing to point back to.”
“A lot of this stuff is going to take time. Rolling back Biden regulations is going to take time, you have to review public opinion and then make a final decision. Then it’s going to be litigated, and all this stuff, I’m sure, will be litigated. It’s going to take time to issue the rules, and then survive litigation,” Milloy told the DCNF. “But on the other hand, a lot of the energy production items — lease sales, permit writing — that kind of stuff can go ahead, and can go ahead immediately. So, what’s immediate is that there will be no more federal agency obstructionism for fossil fuel development. That is over. That was over Monday.”
