Unleashing American Energy
The order revokes twelve prior executive orders on climate and clean energy, terminates the American Climate Corps, disbands the federal working group that calculated the social cost of carbon, and immediately pauses disbursement of clean energy funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
It marks the most sweeping single rollback of federal climate and energy policy in decades, directing every federal agency to remove regulatory barriers to domestic oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and mineral development while streamlining the environmental permitting process.
What this order does
What it orders
The order revokes twelve prior executive orders on climate and clean energy, terminates the American Climate Corps, and disbands the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases. It immediately pauses disbursement of clean energy funds from the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It directs all federal agencies to identify and develop plans to revise or rescind regulations burdening domestic oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and mineral development, and instructs the Council on Environmental Quality to propose rescinding its environmental review regulations to streamline energy project permitting. It also restarts reviews of liquefied natural gas export applications and directs EPA to issue guidance reconsidering the social cost of carbon within 60 days.
Most regulatory changes require agencies to submit action plans, guidance documents, or reports before any individual regulation actually changes. The clean energy funding pause is immediate, but disbursements may resume after a 90-day OMB and National Economic Council review concludes.
Who it affects
Federal agencies across government; recipients of clean energy grants and loans from the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Act; electric vehicle charging infrastructure developers; American Climate Corps participants; energy companies seeking permits on federal lands and waters; and states holding EPA-granted vehicle emissions waivers.
Why it matters
Billions of dollars in clean energy funding are immediately frozen pending agency review. Twelve executive orders underpinning four years of federal climate policy are voided at once. Energy companies gain faster paths to federal permits, and the EPA's legal basis for regulating greenhouse gases is placed under formal re-examination.
What must happen and when
How the order is supposed to work
The order works in layers: some changes are immediate — revocations, the American Climate Corps termination, and the clean energy funding pause — while most directives require agencies to submit action plans within 30 days, guidance within 60 days, and full review reports within 90 days. OMB and the National Economic Council serve as clearinghouses; no paused IRA or Infrastructure Act funds may flow until OMB and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy approve. The Attorney General is separately directed to notify courts of the order and seek stays in pending related litigation.
Actions and deadlines
- Secretary of the Interior submit letter to terminate the American Climate Corps Memorandum of Understanding
- Each agency head develop and begin implementing action plans to suspend, revise, or rescind energy-burdening regulations
- CEQ Chairman provide NEPA implementation guidance and propose rescinding CEQ's NEPA regulations
- EPA Administrator submit joint recommendations to OMB on legality of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding
- Each agency submit report to OMB identifying enforcement discretion opportunities consistent with energy policy
- MARAD determine whether LNG deepwater port project refinements are likely to result in seriously different environmental consequences
- EPA Administrator issue guidance addressing deficiencies in the social cost of carbon calculation
- Secretaries of State, Commerce, Labor, and USTR submit report on recommendations to enhance competitiveness of American mining abroad
- All agency heads submit report to NEC and OMB on review of IRA and Infrastructure Act fund disbursements
- Secretary of Homeland Security provide assessment of forced-labor mineral inflows and national security implications to NEC Director
- NEC Director and Office of Legislative Affairs jointly prepare recommendations to Congress on energy infrastructure permitting
Agencies directed to act
Authority and reach
What this order changes
Revokes Executive Order 11991