President Donald Trump may be best remembered for his use of Twitter as a bully pulpit to stoke controversy or browbeat opponents, but the noise his tweets generated often distracted from the big policy changes he made over his four-year term.
Fossil-focused policies failed to hit brash energy goals Source: By Lesley Clark, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
President Trump exiting Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. Tia Dufour/White House/Flickr
Donald Trump promised American energy dominance when he ran for president, offering a full-throttle embrace of coal, oil and gas and a pledge to hack away at a regulatory thicket he said hampered production.
In office, Trump took aim at Obama-era regulations, rolling back and replacing efforts to make power plants cleaner, setting time limits on environmental reviews for federal projects, bypassing deadlines to upgrade energy efficiency standards and supporting a Republican-led Congress in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Originally published on January 6, 2021 8:38 pm
Updated at 7:54 pm ET
One of the Trump administration s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders one of which was the state of Alaska itself.
Alaska s state-owned economic development corporation was the only bidder on nine of the parcels offered for lease in the northernmost swath of the refuge, known as the coastal plain. Two small companies also each picked up a single parcel.