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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ran on a plan for American energy: make it easier to produce and more affordable to purchase. Since President Trump took office, his administration and congressional allies have taken over 50 actions to unleash America's energy potential. A list of those actions appears below.

January 20, 2025 

1. President Donald J. Trump had a whirlwind first day in office on January 20 signing some 200 executive orders , many redirecting...

Northvolt, an electric vehicle (EV) battery maker that was once one of Europe’s best-funded start-ups, filed for bankruptcy in its home country, Sweden. The company had contributed 76 gigawatt hours  to the region’s gigafactory pipeline. Its failure reduces European-owned cell production capacity to 30% of Europe’s 2030 pipeline, benefiting Asian producers and raising doubts about the viability of Europe’s own battery sector. The company, which appeared to be Europe’s best chance...

Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the biggest deregulation in U.S. history to rescind the onerous regulations from the Obama and Biden administrations. The agency is reviewing regulations with the intent of reversing 31 of the costliest regulations the agency has previously imposed, including backdoor electric vehicle (EV) mandates, the greenhouse gas endangerment finding, the Clean Power Plan, the social cost of carbon ,...

On Thursday, the Government Accountability Office released a memo responding to an inquiry from several Democratic Senators regarding waivers for California under the Clean Air Act and the Congressional Review Act. This memo was inaccurately reported by some outlets as suggesting that a CRA vote on a California waiver decision would be “illegal” or that the memo “blocks” Congress from voting to disapprove of the waiver grant. 

This reporting fundamentally misstates the nature of...

The House of Representatives and the Senate voted to overturn a Biden-era rule imposing progressively higher fees on oil and natural gas companies for excess methane emissions, advancing the bill to President Trump for his signature. The House vote was 220-206 and the Senate vote was 52-47. The measure was part of Biden’s climate law, the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act . However, because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) did not formally set rules until late last year, Congress could...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 42, providing for congressional disapproval of certain Department of Energy appliance standards.

Energy efficiency standards were created 50 years ago when politicians feared we were running out of domestic energy sources and dangerously reliant on the Middle East. That world is long past and the U.S. is the world's leading natural gas, as well as leading oil, producer. Additionally, technology development has made appliances enormously...

Trump wants to revive a canceled pipeline that would carry natural gas from Pennsylvania’s shale gas fields to New York, indicating that it could cut energy prices in the Northeast by as much as 70%. The 124-mile Constitution Pipeline project was abandoned due to legal and regulatory challenges that made it economically unfeasible. The pipeline was proposed in 2013 at a projected cost under $700 million , but delays and legal challenges drove up the costs by nearly 40%. After the project...

The American Energy Alliance supports S.J. Res. 12, providing for congressional disapproval of the EPA methane fee. 

The EPA methane fee is nothing more than an unnecessary tax on energy. Energy producers already have a strong economic incentive to minimize methane leakage throughout their processes because natural gas is marketable product. Piling an EPA tax on top of that existing business rationale is unnecessary. It raises compliance costs without providing any additional incentive...

The American Energy Alliance supports H.J. Res. 35, providing for congressional disapproval of the EPA methane fee and H.J. Res. 20, providing for congressional disapproval of the Department of Energy rules on gas fired tankless water heaters. Both these rulemakings were part of the previous administration's efforts to increases energy costs and limit consumer choice in pursuit of its ideological goals.

The EPA methane fee is nothing more than an unnecessary tax on energy. Energy...

The Trump administration has frozen federal grants for everything from battery factories to electric school buses and issued executive orders that have halted federal approvals for wind and solar projects. The freeze has not come a minute too soon as “clean” energy companies funded by Obama and Biden administration grants are dying on the vine. The latest is Canadian electric bus company Lion Electric, which was given almost $160 million  to manufacture battery-powered buses for school...