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Energy and the Environment

What this site holds on energy and the environment, taken from every part of it: the chapters of Project 2025 assigned to this subject, the actions recorded against those proposals, every order, presidential document, agency rule and public law whose own title carries one of this subject's words, and the measures the chamber voted on that the site already groups under it.

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This page is about energy and the environment.

It gathers what the site holds on it. Parts of the book. Orders and rules. Laws. Votes in Congress.

Most things are here because a word from a short list is in the title. That list is at the foot of the page.

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proposals
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actions recorded
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executive orders
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other documents
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agency rules
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public laws
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measures voted on

What Project 2025 proposes

Every proposal indexed from chapter 12 (Department of Energy and Related Commissions), chapter 13 (Environmental Protection Agency) and chapter 16 (Department of the Interior). A proposal in another chapter that touches this subject is not here.

What has happened against those proposals

Actions this site has already recorded against the proposals above, with the note that says how far each one goes. Nothing new is matched here: every pairing is the one on the proposal's own page.

Partly matches

Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8339

  • Pause and review environmental justice and Title VI actions: partly matches. Executive Order 14151 of January 20, 2025 requires each agency head, within 60 days, to terminate to the maximum extent allowed by law all environmental justice offices and positions along with equity action plans, equity actions, initiatives and programs and equity-related grants or contracts, to give the Director of the Office of Management and Budget a list of every environmental justice position, committee, program, service, activity, budget and expenditure in existence on November 4, 2024, and to have the deputy agency head recommend actions aligning the agency's programs, regulations, guidance, enforcement activities, grants, consent orders and litigating positions with the order's policy. The inventory and the recommendation are a review of ongoing actions. The fit breaks down in that the order terminates rather than pauses, it runs to every agency rather than to the EPA, it does not mention Title VI or the pending Supreme Court decision the chapter ties the pause to, and it sets no point at which paused actions would resume.
Recorded against 3 proposals here

Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8347

  • Revoke the public land orders holding back Alaska land transfers: partly matches. The chapter named Public Land Order 5150 specifically, saying its revocation would give Alaska 1.3 million acres and should be a top priority. This order directs that changes to it, including potential rescission, be evaluated. Directing an evaluation is not the revocation the chapter asked for.
  • Approve the Ambler Road project in Alaska: partly matches. The chapter asked for immediate approval of the Ambler Road project. This order pauses activity under the 2024 record of decision pending review and reinstates the 2020 record of decision, which is a step toward that outcome by a different route than immediate approval.
  • Roll back current orders and reinstate the energy dominance agenda: closely matches. Matches the chapter's request to roll back current orders and restore an energy development agenda on Alaskan lands.
Recorded against 3 proposals here

Unleashing American Energy

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8353

  • Stop using energy policy to advance social agendas: partly matches. Addresses the chapter's subject of removing what it calls politicized considerations from energy policy, by a different route: this order works through revocations and methodology instructions rather than through the departmental programs the chapter named.
  • Remove climate considerations from natural gas export approvals: partly matches. Executive Order 14154, signed January 20, 2025, directs the Secretary of Energy to restart reviews of liquefied natural gas export applications as expeditiously as possible and, in weighing the public interest, to consider economic and employment impacts and the effect on the security of allies and partners. A separate section disbands the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, withdraws its estimates and guidance, and tells agencies in permitting and regulatory processes to adhere only to legislated environmental requirements. That removes a climate input from federal decisions and adds factors that favor approval. It stops short of the proposal in that the order never states that climate effects are excluded from the public interest test itself, and it does not carry out the chapter's separate request that Congress extend automatic approval beyond free trade agreement countries.
  • Consider eliminating judicial review of environmental review documents: partly matches. Section 5(e) of Executive Order 14154 of January 20, 2025 directs the Director of the National Economic Council and the Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs to jointly prepare recommendations to Congress that provide greater certainty in the federal permitting process, including, but not limited to, streamlining the judicial review of the application of the National Environmental Policy Act. The passage raises eliminating judicial review as something to consider and directs it to Congress, and this is a directed step toward legislative recommendations on that question. The fit breaks down in that the order says streamlining rather than eliminating, it addresses judicial review of the application of the act rather than of the adequacy of environmental review documents, and the record indexed here does not show what the recommendations said or whether they were delivered.
Closely matches

Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8625

  • Reinstate Schedule F to support the department's reforms: closely matches. EO 14171 reinstates EO 13957, the Schedule F order, with amendments, renames the schedule Schedule Policy/Career, and revokes the 2021 order that had undone it. That is the reinstatement the passage asks for, and it applies across the government. The order places no Interior position in the schedule by itself, which happens by agency recommendation under OPM's final rule of February 6, 2026, and positions in the schedule stay career and nonpartisan rather than becoming political. None of the candidates offered here is that order: three are cases and one is a Transportation Department procedures rule.
Closely matches

Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

January 20, 2025 · 90 FR 8249

  • Apply the day one regulatory freeze to the EPA without exception: closely matches. The memorandum of January 20, 2025 freezes rulemaking across all executive departments and agencies, with no exception for the EPA, and its definition of rule goes well beyond notice and comment rulemaking: it reaches guidance documents, notices of inquiry, advance notices, proposed rules, and any agency statement of general applicability and future effect that sets out a policy or an interpretation. That covers the quasi-regulatory actions the chapter names. The fit is not exact. The freeze bars new rules and asks agencies only to consider postponing rules already published, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget may exempt any rule deemed necessary for emergencies or other urgent circumstances, and nothing in it reaches back to assessments, determinations or standards issued in earlier years.
Partly matches

Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Deregulatory Initiative

February 19, 2025 · 90 FR 10583

  • Stop any activity without clear current congressional authorization: partly matches. Executive Order 14219 of February 19, 2025 directs every agency head, within 60 days, to review all regulations under the agency's jurisdiction and identify those based on anything other than the best reading of the underlying statutory authority and those implicating matters of social, political or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority, to send that list to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for a unified agenda that seeks to rescind or modify them, and to generally de-prioritize enforcement of them. That is the test the passage sets. The fit breaks down in that the order reaches regulations rather than any ongoing or planned activity, so it does not touch programs, grants or staffing; it runs to all agencies rather than the EPA; it directs identification and proposed rescission rather than stopping the activity; and it says nothing about the reduction in full-time positions or the budget request the chapter attaches to the proposal.
Partly matches

Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production

March 1, 2025 · 90 FR 11365

  • Manage the O&C lands for permanent timber production: partly matches. EO 14225 directs the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to issue guidance expanding timber production, to submit a plan setting the annual volume to be offered for sale from BLM and Forest Service lands over four years, and to adopt categorical exclusions for thinning and salvage. The O&C lands are BLM land in western Oregon, so they fall inside that direction. The order never mentions the O&C lands, the 1937 statute or permanent forest production, and it sets a sale target across all federal lands rather than managing those lands under the mandate the proposal invokes.
Partly matches

Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy relating to “Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Gas-fired Instantaneous Water Heaters”

May 9, 2025 · 139 Stat. 49

  • Modify or repeal the law mandating appliance efficiency standards: partly matches. Public Law 119-6 disapproves, under the Congressional Review Act, the Energy Department's rule on energy conservation standards for consumer gas-fired instantaneous water heaters, and provides that the rule shall have no force or effect. Three companion laws do the same for walk-in coolers and freezers, for appliance certification and labeling, and for commercial refrigerators. This is Congress and the President acting together against particular standards, which is nearer the chapter's fallback of narrowing which appliance rules proceed than to what it asks for. It does not modify or repeal the law that mandates the standards: the statutory scheme stands, the department keeps its duty to set standards, and the resolutions state no reason.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

Restoring Gold Standard Science

May 23, 2025 · 90 FR 22601

  • Reject precautionary default assumptions in risk assessment: partly matches. Executive Order 14303, signed May 23, 2025, directs agency heads and employees that highly unlikely and overly precautionary assumptions and scenarios should only be relied upon in agency decision making where required by law or otherwise pertinent to the action, requires them to document how uncertainty propagates through models, and requires a weight of scientific evidence approach. That is the shift in default assumptions the passage asks for, and it applies across the government rather than to the EPA alone. It falls short in three ways: the instruction on precautionary assumptions is worded as should rather than shall, the order names no particular model, so the low-dose linear non-threshold model and the uncertainty factors the chapter objects to are not addressed by name, and it does not tell agencies to default to less restrictive regulatory outcomes.
  • Open the agency's science to public scrutiny: partly matches. Executive Order 14303 of May 23, 2025 requires agency heads, to the extent practicable and within the agency's authority, to make publicly available the data, analyses and conclusions associated with influential scientific information the agency produces or uses, including data cited in peer-reviewed literature, and the models and source code used to generate it, and it bars employees from invoking exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act to withhold those models without the agency head's written authorization. That is the disclosure the chapter's principle of open supporting studies asks for, and the order also directs that updated scientific integrity policies provide for consideration of dissenting viewpoints. The fit breaks down in that the order creates no citizen science program and deputizes no member of the public to audit agency data, it runs to every agency rather than to the EPA, and it expressly excludes from disclosure the risk models used to guide agency enforcement actions or select enforcement targets.
Recorded against 2 proposals here

To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14

July 4, 2025 · 139 Stat. 72

  • Reinstate quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales: closely matches. Section 50101 of Public Law 119-21 requires the Secretary of the Interior to immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales under the Mineral Leasing Act, and to hold at least four sales a year of available land in each of nine named states, with a replacement sale in the same fiscal year if one is canceled or draws no bid. Congress rather than the BLM did it: the duty names nine states rather than all producing states, it does not restore the earlier BLM instruction memorandum, and it adds no expanded public notice and comment step, which the chapter asked for as an adjustment. None of the candidates offered for this proposal sets a lease sale schedule.
  • Expand the Navy and develop new nuclear naval reactors: partly matches. Public Law 119-21, enacted July 4, 2025, appropriates thirty-six sums to the Secretary of Defense for shipbuilding for fiscal year 2025, available through September 30, 2029. Twenty-one of them buy ships and craft, including $4,600,000,000 for a second Virginia-class submarine in fiscal year 2026 and $5,400,000,000 for two more guided missile destroyers, and fifteen build up the shipbuilding industrial base and workforce. That is the fleet expansion half of the passage. The fit breaks down on the other half: the section buys ships and yard capacity and says nothing about developing new nuclear naval reactors, it names neither the National Nuclear Security Administration nor its Naval Reactors program, and the chapter's proposal sits in a chapter about the Energy Department while this section runs to the Defense Department.
Recorded against 5 proposals here

Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes

January 23, 2026 · 140 Stat. 5

  • Eliminate the department's applied energy programs: same subject, different route. Public Law 119-74, enacted January 23, 2026, acts on the same offices the passage names and funds them. Title III appropriates $3,100,000,000 under the heading Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, $235,000,000 under Electricity, $1,785,000,000 under Nuclear Energy and $720,000,000 under Fossil Energy, each for fiscal year 2026 and each to remain available until expended. The passage asks Congress to eliminate those applied energy programs. The fit breaks down in that an appropriations act does not decide whether an office continues to exist: it neither creates nor abolishes any of these offices, it sets amounts for a single fiscal year, and it says nothing about the exception for basic science research the chapter allows.
  • Eliminate ARPA-E: same subject, different route. Public Law 119-74 appropriates $350,000,000 under the heading Advanced Research Projects Agency, Energy for the activities authorized by section 5012 of the America COMPETES Act, of which $40,000,000 is available until September 30, 2027 for program direction. The passage asks Congress to eliminate that agency, and the act instead names it and funds it for fiscal year 2026. The fit breaks down in that the act carries no provision addressing whether the agency should continue, repeals no part of its authorizing statute, and reaches only one fiscal year, so it records a funding decision rather than a decision on the agency's existence.
  • Sunset the department's lending authority and close the loan office: same subject, different route. Public Law 119-74 carries a heading for the Title 17 Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee Program, appropriates $35,000,000 for its necessary administrative expenses available until September 30, 2027, and adds $150,000,000 for the cost of loan guarantees for the construction of small modular reactors or advanced nuclear reactors eligible under section 1703(b)(4) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The passage asks that the department's loan authority be sunset through Congress and the Loan Programs Office eventually eliminated, and the act continues and funds that program instead. The fit breaks down in that the act does not name the Loan Programs Office, sets no end date for the lending authority in either direction, and is an appropriation for one fiscal year rather than a decision on whether the authority should be sunset.
  • Make no new energy loans or loan guarantees: same subject, different route. The passage asks that the department not back any new loans or loan guarantees. Public Law 119-74 provides $150,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the cost of loan guarantees for the construction of small modular reactors or advanced nuclear reactors under section 1703(b)(4) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and attaches provisos restricting which projects those commitments may cover. The fit breaks down in that the act supplies subsidy cost and conditions rather than directing the department to make any particular loan, it says nothing about the department's existing loan portfolio, and the passage addresses what the department should choose to do while the act addresses what Congress has made available.
  • Ask Congress to let the BLM dispose humanely of wild horses and burros: same subject, different route. Public Law 119-74 acts on the same animals and runs the other way. It appropriates $144,000,000 for the wild horse and burro program, authorizes multiyear contracts and cooperative agreements for the long-term care and maintenance of excess wild horses and burros on private land, provides that amounts appropriated by the act shall not be available for the destruction of any healthy, unadopted wild horse or burro under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned or for a sale that results in the animal being processed into a commercial product, and bars a government agency receiving a transferred animal from euthanizing it except on a licensed veterinarian's recommendation in a case of severe injury, illness or advanced age. The passage asks Congress to enact laws permitting the Bureau of Land Management to dispose humanely of these animals. The fit breaks down in that these are conditions on one act's appropriations rather than an amendment to the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and the act leaves the underlying statute untouched.
Partly matches

Rescission of the Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding and Motor Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards Under the Clean Air Act

February 18, 2026 · 91 FR 7686

  • Stop any activity without clear current congressional authorization: partly matches. In the rule published February 18, 2026, the EPA rescinds the Administrator's 2009 findings of contribution and endangerment and repeals all greenhouse gas emission standards for light-duty, medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles and engines, stating that section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act does not authorize the agency to prescribe emission standards in response to global climate change concerns and that this reading is corroborated by the major questions doctrine. An agency ending an activity because it concludes the statute does not authorize it is the test the passage sets. The fit breaks down in that the rule applies that test to one set of standards under one Clean Air Act provision rather than across the agency, it is a rescission of rules rather than the agency-wide review the passage asks for, and only the rule's own summary is indexed here, so what the preamble says beyond that is not recorded on this site.
Partly matches

Removing Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Home Construction

March 13, 2026 · 91 FR 13207

  • Repeal and reissue the waters of the United States rules: partly matches. Executive Order 14394 of March 13, 2026 directs the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, and the EPA Administrator to review and revise requirements related to stormwater, wetlands, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water, naming among them the federal standards for permits under section 404 of the Clean Water Act for the discharge of dredged and fill material into waters of the United States and the standards for state and tribal assumption of that permitting under section 404(g). That is a directed revision of the federal water regulations the passage concerns. The fit breaks down in that the order reaches section 404 permitting standards rather than the definition of waters of the United States, it does not mention section 401 state certification, it calls for review and revision rather than repeal and reissuance, and its stated purpose is reducing housing construction and ownership costs rather than the jurisdictional question the passage raises.
Same subject, different route

Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument

July 13, 2026 · 91 FR 45169

  • Seek repeal of the Antiquities Act: same subject, different route. Proclamation 11043 reduces the Bears Ears National Monument, and Proclamation 11044 of the same day, July 13, 2026, does the same for Grand Staircase-Escalante. Both use the Antiquities Act rather than seeking its repeal, reasoning that objects named in the prior proclamations are generic or common and that the reservations exceeded the smallest area compatible with their care. They answer the chapter's complaint that the earlier review adjusted too little, and they answer it in the same place the chapter called insufficient: two monuments in one state, Utah, with nothing done in Maine or Oregon. The act itself remains in force and no repeal has been sought.

Executive orders

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Proclamations, memoranda and the rest

Everything else the President signed whose title carries one of these words.

Agency rules

Final rules that name an executive order indexed here and whose title carries one of these words.

Public laws

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Roll call votes

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How This Subject Is Put Together

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The chapters. The proposals above are every proposal indexed from chapter 12 (Department of Energy and Related Commissions), chapter 13 (Environmental Protection Agency) and chapter 16 (Department of the Interior). Each chapter is assigned to the subjects the agencies and the matter it covers belong to. The whole table, all thirty chapters, is on the subjects page.

The words. An order, a presidential document, a rule or a law is here because one of these words appears in its own title, and the word that matched is printed beside it: energy oil gas coal nuclear drilling pipeline emission environment climate wildfire forest water mineral timber conservation

A word in a title is a fact about the title. It is not a finding that the document is about this subject: a title can carry a word in another sense, and where it does the document is still listed, with the word shown, so the reader can see what put it there. The reverse also happens. A document about this subject whose title happens to use none of these words is not on this page, and the way to find it is the document index or the search.

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