Explore President Trump's energy policies, from deregulation and resource development to withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, reshaping the U.S. energy landscape.

New US President Donald Trump has declared a national energy emergency, announced the country's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, and named cabinet-level appointees including new heads of the Department of Energy and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

President Donald Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a wave of executive actions on his first day in office. The order cited high energy prices as a reason the country needed to boost oil and gas production.

Musk, far from repudiating the president, got so excited while celebrating Trump’s return that he gave a crowd two straight-armed gestures that looked to some observers like fascist salutes (Musk described this suggestion as “dirty tricks”).

Together with a flurry of Day 1 executive orders, President Donald Trump’s first speech back in office signaled his plans to keep a key campaign promise: to “drill, baby, drill.” “We have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on earth,

President Trump issued an Executive Order declaring a National Energy Emergency (Order).1 Under the National Emergencies Act,2 the president may declare a national emergency that allows the government to use statutory authorities that are reserved for times of national emergencies.