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Executive Order 13783

Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth

This executive order directs federal agencies to review and roll back regulations that burden domestic energy production, particularly for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy. It revokes several Obama-era climate change policies, disbands the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, and mandates specific reviews of EPA rules including the Clean Power Plan and various oil and gas regulations.

Federal Register Open PDF 82 FR 16093

Impact dates

  1. Final reports due (extendable by OMB Director)

  2. Agency heads submit draft final reports on energy-burdening regulations

  3. Agency heads submit review plans to OMB Director

Key directives

  • Agency heads review all regulations burdening domestic energy resources
  • Submit review plans to OMB within 45 days
  • Submit draft final reports within 120 days
  • Finalize reports within 180 days
  • Revoke EO 13653 and three climate-related presidential memoranda
  • Rescind President's Climate Action Plan and methane strategy reports
  • Rescind CEQ greenhouse gas emissions guidance
  • Review and potentially rescind Clean Power Plan and related EPA rules
  • Disband Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Direct agencies to use OMB Circular A-4 for greenhouse gas valuation
  • Lift federal land coal leasing moratorium
  • Review and potentially rescind oil and gas sector emission standards and fracking rules

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Disbanding of IWG on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Withdrawal of IWG technical documents
  • Revocation of Obama climate executive actions and memoranda
  • Rescission of CEQ climate guidance
  • Interior Secretary to lift federal coal leasing moratorium
  • EPA Administrator to begin Clean Power Plan review
  • All agencies to begin review of energy-burdening regulations

Near term (90d)

  • Agency heads submit review plans to OMB Director (45 days)
  • Agency heads submit draft final reports on energy-burdening regulations (120 days)

Long term

  • Final reports on energy regulations due (180 days, extendable)
  • Potential suspension, revision, or rescission of numerous environmental and climate regulations
  • Possible restructuring of federal energy and environmental regulatory framework

Risks & tensions

  • Legal challenges likely to rescission of finalized rules; courts may reject 'as soon as practicable' timeline as arbitrary
  • Conflict between directive to promote 'clean air and clean water' and simultaneous deregulation of emission standards
  • Withdrawal of social cost of carbon metrics may weaken legal rationale for climate regulations
  • Tension with states that have adopted complementary climate policies
  • International climate commitments (Paris Agreement) potentially undermined, though not explicitly mentioned
  • Vague 'burden' standard leaves significant discretion to agencies and OMB Director
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