Trump EOs Target Flurry Of Biden-Era Environment, Energy Measures

January 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions is launching a variety of formal processes to scale back Biden-era environment- and energy-related measures, while also putting a greater emphasis on production and use of fossil fuels. Many of Trump’s directives for EPA are included in an executive order titled, “ Unleashing American Energy .” That order directs EPA and other agencies to review actions “that impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources --...


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