Executive order targets state laws that impede energy production
President Trump’s April 8 executive order seeks to shield U.S. energy sectors from state-level climate regulations. It directs the Attorney General to challenge state laws deemed obstructive to energy development, including carbon taxes and ESG mandates. The order targets policies in states like New York, Vermont, and California, aiming to bolster American energy dominance and national security.
President Donald Trump on April 8 issued an executive order that aims to protect oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, geothermal, biofuel, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources from state overreach.
The executive order stresses Trump’s commitment to unleash American energy through the removal of illegitimate impediments to the identification, development, siting, production, investment in, or use of these domestic energy resources.
Within the order, Trump cites examples of “burdensome and ideologically motivated ‘climate change’ or energy policies” implemented by states “that threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security.” This includes New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act, Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, and California’s Cap-and-Trade Program.
Under the executive order, the Attorney General is directed to identify “state laws purporting to address ‘climate change’ or involving ‘environmental, social, and governance’ initiatives, ‘environmental justice,’ carbon or ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions, and funds to collect carbon penalties or carbon taxes,” and take appropriate action to stop enforcement of any such laws that are determined to be illegal.
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Source : Ethanol Producer Magazine
