by Matthew Foldi
Washington Reporter
President Donald Trump and his administration are receiving backup from a coalition of energy policy experts for their move to rescind an Obama-era regulation that Rep. Harriet Hageman (R., Wyo.) previously told the Washington Reporter is “the head of the snake for all of the challenges that we’ve had for the last 20 years in terms of developing and producing domestically our own energy resources.”
The energy experts want the Trump administration to finish what it started, and finalize the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rescission of all greenhouse gas emissions standards for coal power plants. The EPA already proposed such a rescission in June 2025, but it has never been finalized…
Trump already rescinded Obama’s EPA Endangerment Finding for emissions of greenhouse gases from vehicles, and because that rule served as the scientific basis for regulating coal plants, the energy experts see an opening to finish the job.
“The current global energy crisis spotlights the need for the U.S. to re-develop its awesome coal resource that was all but destroyed by the Obama and Biden administrations,” Steve Milloy, a former Trump EPA Transition team member, told the Reporter about why the letter is necessary; Milloy is also a Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute. “Because the political future is uncertain, President Trump needs to expedite the termination of the overregulation of the coal industry. We must lock in much-needed regulatory changes now so that future politicians cannot easily or senselessly deny our country the tens of trillions of dollars of value that can be produced by coal-fired electricity.”
