by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
July 20 marks six months into President Trump’s second term. Unleashing the fossil fuel and nuclear industries, and terminating the Green New Scam were major planks of his campaign. So what are his first semester grades for setting policy and policy implementation? Awesome with a few concerns.
For setting policy, the President gets an A-plus. He has issued numerous Executive orders to promote domestic fossil fuel and nuclear energy and to roll back the Green New Scam, the climate hoax, “environmental justice” and other pointless overregulation, including:
- Unleashing American Energy; Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements
- Declaring a National Energy Emergency
- Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential
- Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects
- Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis;
- Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing
- Protecting American Energy from State Overreach
- Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry
- Nuclear Energy Renaissance
- Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable Energy Sources.
President Trump also rescinded numerous Biden-issued Executive orders on energy and the environment.
President Trump’s cabinet departments, notably the Department of Interior and Environmental Protection Agency, have also announced policies and undertaken rulemakings to implement these Executive orders. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been re-focused on weather instead of climate. EPA’s entire scientific research arm, the infamous Office of Research and Development (ORD), has been entirely eliminated. When I started fighting junk science in 1990, I started by fighting ORD. Now, it’s gone and I’m still standing.
