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The administration of President Donald Trump is pointing to several biden era Environmental rules and regulations stripping the energy sector of “coercive” climatic policies and oil lease prohibitions, and launching internal investigations in agency’s actions that “load” the energy development.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who was sworn on Friday, spent his first full day at work by implementing six new orders that reinforce Trump agenda and establish the tone for the department in the next four years.
The secretary’s orders include examining ways to eliminate “harmful” and “coercive” climatic policies, raise the prohibitions of the Biden era in oil and gas leases, and make a review of the legislation that financed the energy agenda Green of the old administration, known as the reduction of Act inflation (IRA).
“Today marks the beginning of an exciting chapter for the Department of the Interior,” Burgum said in a statement. “We are committed to working in collaboration to unlock the maximum potential of the United States in the energy domain and economic development to make life more affordable for each American family while showing the world the power of natural resources and innovation of states Joined”.
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The then governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, speaks during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC, on Thursday, January 16, 2025. (To the Drago)
In a press release issued on Monday, Burgum announced the first initiatives of the department.
The DOI promised to accelerate the completion of all infrastructure and environment projects authorized to address the emergency of national energy, which was declared by Trump on the day of the inauguration.
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The department will also review all IRA assignments, after former President Joe Biden spent the remaining months of his presidency trying to quickly Repair funds From the bill to finance green energy projects throughout the country.
President Donald Trump arrives at a night surveillance festival at the Palm Beach Convention Center on Wednesday, November 6, 2024. (Evan Vucci)
In addition, the DOI said that for each new regulation issued, the department will eliminate at least 10 existing as part of the “Trump’s deregulation agenda”.
Burgum also demanded “immediate compliance” with Trump’s cancel They will load the development of domestic energy resources. “
The DOI, on Monday, also withdrew an Biden administration order from 2021 that stopped the lease of oil and gas in the National Wildlife Refuge of the ArcticA coastal plain that the administrations of the first and the second Trump have looked as an oil and gas resource.
Former President Joe Biden implemented several environmental regulations during his mandate. (Kevin Dietsch)
“Together, we will make sure that our policies reflect the needs of our communities, respect tribal sovereignty and promote innovation that will keep the United States at the forefront of energy and environmental leadership,” Burgum said in a statement.
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Climate activist groups, however, have not supported the nomination of bourgeois.
“From opening more public land for extraction to attacking innumerable protections of land, water and wildlife, it is clear that President Trump is committed to expanding fossil fuels and attending the industry at the expense of our climate, public lands and waters, and Wildlife, “Earthjustice, a group of environmental law, wrote in opposition to the nomination of Burgum.
