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.