Listing Trump’s Environment and Energy Executive Orders

I’m counting 35 so far. But I wouldn’t be shocked to learn that I’d missed something.

What’s the collective noun for executive orders? (Like a group of cows is a “herd of cows”). Is a group of executive orders a “cacophony of orders”? An “odiousness”? Or maybe a “pomposity of orders”?  Whatever the right terms might be, we’ve certainly had those from Trump. It’s hard to keep track of  even the orders dealing with a single issue-area such as the environment.

For that reason, I’ve put together a list of all the orders that I could identify dealing with environment or energy.  Just to keep you reading, I should tell you that the most important ones are near the end. Whatever you might say about Trump, no one can question his zeal for eliminating environmental protections.

With that as a preface, here’s the list:

1. Accelerating Federal Permitting Of Data Center Infrastructure (new categorical exclusions for data centers from environmental impact statements).
2. Regulatory Relief For Certain Stationary Sources To Further Promote American Energy (delaying coal plant compliance with toxic emissions rules)
3. Regulatory Relief For Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Chemical Manufacturing Security (delaying toxic emission rules for chemical plants)
4. Regulatory Relief For Certain Stationary Sources To Promote American Iron Ore Processing Security (delaying emission rules for taconite plants)
5. EO 14315:Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources (Directive to more rapidly phase out renewable energy credits)
6. EO 14314:Making America Beautiful Again by Improving Our National Parks (funding improvements to National Parks by charging higher fees to non-U.S. residents)
7. EO 14313: Establishing the President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission (conserving wildlife while expanding hunting, fishing, and other uses).
8. EO 14308: Empowering Commonsense Wildfire Prevention and Response (various measures addressing wildlife prevention and response)
9. EO 14304: Leading the World in Supersonic Flight (repealing prohibition on overland flights by SSTs)
10. EO 14303: Restoring Gold Standard Science (imposing various requirements such as reproducibility, best available science, data transparency)
11. EO 14301: Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy (expediting review, approval and deployment of advanced reactors)
12. EO 14300: Ordering the Reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (directing NRC to adopt less-risk averse regulatory policies)
13. EO 14299: Deploying Advanced Nuclear Reactor Technologies for National Security (DOE construction of reactors with streamlined environmental reviews)
14. EO 14285: Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources (initiating seabed mining)
15. EO 14276: Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness (promoting aquaculture, opening marine national monuments to fishing)
16. EO 14270: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy (uses sunsetting to create a streamlined method of eliminating certain environmebntal regulations)
17. EO 14264: Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheadsd (eliminating a water conservation method)
18. EO 14262: Strengthening the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid (keeping uneconomic – usually coal — plants in operation to ensure grid reliability)
19. EO 14261: Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241 (lifting barriers to coal mining on federal land)
20. EO 14260: Protecting American Energy From State Overreach (eliminating state climate policies)
21. EO 14241: Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral Production (revising federal land use plans to prioritize mineral production)
22. EO 14236: Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (eliminating use of Defense Production Act to expedite clean technology production)
23. EO 14225: Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production (measures to increase logging, including streamline environmental and endangered species reviews).
24. EO 14219: Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory Initiative (directing review of existing regulations to repeal those hindering energy production, among other reasons)
25. EO 14213: Establishing the National Energy Dominance Council (expanding energy production
26. EO 14208: Ending Procurement and Forced Use of Paper Straws (repealing measure designed to reduce plastic pollution)
27. EO 14192: Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation (requiring that ten regulations be repealed for each new regulation issued; total incremental cost of all new regulations must be less than zero)
28. EO 14181: Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas (directing federal government to maximize water delivery and rescind regulations hindering maximum water use).
29. EO 14173: Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity (repealing Clinton’s foundational environmental justice executive order
30. EO 14162: Putting America First in International Environmental Agreementsd (withdrawing from Paris Agreement)
31. EO 14156 Declaring a National Energy Emergency (declaring an energy emergency, in part because of state renewable energy policies that allegedly imperil the grid, calling for measures to reduce barriers from wetlands and water permits and from the Endangered Species Act).
32. EO 14154 Unleashing American Energy (targeting past measures to incentivize electric vehicles and measures to improve appliance energy efficiency, also revoking past executive orders dealing with climate change; eliminating Council of Environmental Quality NEPA regulations and directing agencies to issue new regulation that maximize efficiency ; eliminating consideration of the social cost of carbon; freezing all clean energy funding; )
33. EO 14153: Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential (reopen Arctic oil drilling, maximize resource production on federal and state lands).
34. EO 14151: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing (eliminating all environmental justice programs and offices)
35. EO 14148: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions (repealing Biden executive orders, including those relating to climate change and environmental justice).