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- Executive Order (EO) 14332 on “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” reshapes the federal discretionary grant landscape by embedding ideological oversight, performance accountability, and political...more
A chain of events that started on Inauguration Day culminated with the June 30, 2025, withdrawal of National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations that have, since the 1970s, structured decision-making processes at the...more
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- Pursuant to President Trump’s executive order seeking to maximize the secretary of energy’s emergency authority under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act, the secretary’s two new orders have halted the...more
6/10/2025
/ Coal Industry ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Electricity ,
Energy Policy ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Power Act ,
FERC ,
Fossil Fuel ,
MISO ,
Natural Gas ,
NERC ,
PJM ,
Popular ,
Power Plants ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Trump Administration
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-The Department of the Interior approved the reactivation of the Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium mine using new emergency procedures issued pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14156, which declared...more
On Friday, May 23, 2025, President Trump signed four executive orders related to nuclear energy, three of which seek to expedite approval processes for permitting new nuclear reactors.
The orders, which build upon...more
5/28/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Atomic Energy Act ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Executive Orders ,
National Security ,
NEPA ,
Nuclear Power ,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Supply Chain ,
Trump Administration
On April 24, 2025, the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order aimed at fast-tracking deep-sea mining. ...more
On April 9, 2025, President Trump announced a slew of executive actions seeking to bolster the coal industry.
One of the three executive orders is directly targeted at procedures to increase coal mining and production, which...more
4/14/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Coal ,
Coal Industry ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of the Interior ,
Energy Policy ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Policies ,
Executive Orders ,
NEPA ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order entitled Protecting American Energy from State Overreach.
The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify state laws and policies that burden...more
The Trump administration’s efforts to satisfy the United States’ need for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure further advanced when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or department) issued an anticipated Request for...more
Continuing the administration’s strategy to enhance domestic mining and processing of minerals and to minimize the United States’ reliance on imports, on March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (EO)...more
On January 20th, President Donald Trump launched his first attack on the wind industry by issuing a Presidential Memorandum, which temporarily bars future offshore wind leasing in federal waters and pauses issuance of any...more
1/27/2025
/ Biden Administration ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Energy Policy ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Offshore Wind ,
Permits ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Renewable Energy ,
Trump Administration ,
Wind Power