Trump Administration, Natural Resources, Energy Policy

Fast-Tracking Federal Natural Resource Approvals: Seabed Exploration and Mining

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/17/2025

Since taking office on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has issued a slew of executive orders and other directives aimed at expediting certain land use authorizations and approvals on federally managed land, primarily...more

The First 150 Days: Executive Orders and Public Land Development

Jenner & Block on 6/16/2025

After 150 days in office, President Trump has signed executive orders on a pace of more than one per day. An emerging priority of the administration is increasing the use of federal land for resource production. This post...more

Empowering Commonsense Wildlife Prevention and Response (Trump EO Tracker)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 6/13/2025

Directs DOI and USDA to consolidate wildland fire programs, expand local partnerships, develop a technology roadmap, and revise rules to enable more effective wildfire prevention and response. It also instructs multiple...more

State Climate Laws and Litigation Face Federal Pushback Under New Executive Order

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 4/18/2025

On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14260, Protecting American Energy From State Overreach. Framed as part of the Administration’s broader strategy of unleashing American energy, the Order directs...more

President Trump’s Executive Actions’ Drill Down to “Commonsense” Sweeping Reforms

Snell & Wilmer on 2/27/2025

“We will drill, baby, drill!” This was an emphatic promise from President Donald J. Trump during his Inaugural Address on January 20, 2025; but also his campaign mantra that, in part, contributed to his electoral and...more

The Alaska Executive Order: What It Means for Energy, Tribes, and Federal Lands‎

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 1/31/2025

On January 20, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential” (the “Alaska EO”). The order reverses decisions by the Biden administration to limit energy resource...more

Congress' year-end funding bill included extensions of tax credits for renewable energy, including wind, biofuels, and others

Hogan Lovells on 1/9/2020

In a rare display of bipartisanship, both houses of Congress and President Trump were able to come to agreement in the waning hours of the 2019 congressional session to extend government funding for fiscal year 2020. Included...more

Department of the Interior Announces Actions to Expedite Energy Development with Potential Consequences for Listed Species

Nossaman LLP on 10/30/2017

On October 25, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released a report entitled “Review of the Department of the Interior Actions that Potentially Burden Domestic Energy” identifying agency actions that potentially...more

New Committee Leadership in Congress - More Gridlock or a New Era of Environmental Lawmaking? ABA Pesticides, Chemical Regulation,...

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 4/17/2017

During the Obama administration, in particular after the 2010 mid-term elections in which Democrats lost their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, legislative gridlock became standard operating procedure in...more

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