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Executive Order 14154 of January 20, 2025 

Unleashing American Energy 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

Section 1. Background. America is blessed with an abundance of energy 

and natural resources that have historically powered our Nation’s economic 

prosperity. In recent years, burdensome and ideologically motivated regulations have impeded the development of these resources, limited the generation of reliable and affordable electricity, reduced job creation, and inflicted 

high energy costs upon our citizens. These high energy costs devastate 

American consumers by driving up the cost of transportation, heating, utilities, farming, and manufacturing, while weakening our national security. 

It is thus in the national interest to unleash America’s affordable and reliable 

energy and natural resources. This will restore American prosperity—including for those men and women who have been forgotten by our economy 

in recent years. It will also rebuild our Nation’s economic and military 

security, which will deliver peace through strength. 

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States: 

(a) to encourage energy exploration and production on Federal lands and 

waters, including on the Outer Continental Shelf, in order to meet the 

needs of our citizens and solidify the United States as a global energy 

leader long into the future; 

(b) to establish our position as the leading producer and processor of 

non-fuel minerals, including rare earth minerals, which will create jobs 

and prosperity at home, strengthen supply chains for the United States 

and its allies, and reduce the global influence of malign and adversarial 

states; 

(c) to protect the United States’s economic and national security and 

military preparedness by ensuring that an abundant supply of reliable energy 

is readily accessible in every State and territory of the Nation; 

(d) to ensure that all regulatory requirements related to energy are grounded 

in clearly applicable law; 

(e) to eliminate the ‘‘electric vehicle (EV) mandate’’ and promote true 

consumer choice, which is essential for economic growth and innovation, 

by removing regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access; by ensuring a level 

regulatory playing field for consumer choice in vehicles; by terminating, 

where appropriate, state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of 

gasoline-powered automobiles; and by considering the elimination of unfair 

subsidies and other ill-conceived government-imposed market distortions 

that favor EVs over other technologies and effectively mandate their purchase 

by individuals, private businesses, and government entities alike by rendering 

other types of vehicles unaffordable; 

(f) to safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety 

of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, 

washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, 

and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing 

and appliance industries; 

(g) to ensure that the global effects of a rule, regulation, or action shall, 

whenever evaluated, be reported separately from its domestic costs and 


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benefits, in order to promote sound regulatory decision making and prioritize 

the interests of the American people; 

(h) to guarantee that all executive departments and agencies (agencies) 

provide opportunity for public comment and rigorous, peer-reviewed scientific analysis; and 

(i) to ensure that no Federal funding be employed in a manner contrary 

to the principles outlined in this section, unless required by law. 

Sec. 3. Immediate Review of All Agency Actions that Potentially Burden 

the Development of Domestic Energy Resources. (a) The heads of all agencies 

shall review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, 

settlements, consent orders, and any other agency actions (collectively, agency actions) to identify those agency actions that impose an undue burden 

on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources— 

with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, 

critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources—or that are otherwise inconsistent with the policy set forth in section 2 of this order, including restrictions on consumer choice of vehicles and appliances. 

(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the head of each agency 

shall, in consultation with the director of the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) and the National Economic Council (NEC), develop and begin 

implementing action plans to suspend, revise, or rescind all agency actions 

identified as unduly burdensome under subsection (a) of this section, as 

expeditiously as possible and consistent with applicable law. The head 

of any agency who determines that such agency does not have agency 

actions described in subsection (a) of this section shall submit to the Director 

of OMB a written statement to that effect and, absent a determination by 

the Director of OMB that such agency does have agency actions described 

in this subsection, shall have no further responsibilities under this section. 

(c) Agencies shall promptly notify the Attorney General of any steps 

taken pursuant to subsection (a) of this section so that the Attorney General 

may, as appropriate: 

(i) provide notice of this Executive Order and any such actions to any 

court with jurisdiction over pending litigation in which such actions may 

be relevant; and 

(ii) request that such court stay or otherwise delay further litigation, or 

seek other appropriate relief consistent with this order, pending the completion of the administrative actions described in this order. 

(d) Pursuant to the policy outlined in section 2 of this order, the Attorney 

General shall consider whether pending litigation against illegal, dangerous, 

or harmful policies should be resolved through stays or other relief. 

Sec. 4. Revocation of and Revisions to Certain Presidential and Regulatory 

Actions. (a) The following are revoked and any offices established therein 

are abolished: 

(i) Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health 

and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis); 

(ii) Executive Order 13992 of January 20, 2021 (Revocation of Certain 

Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation); 

(iii) Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate 

Crisis at Home and Abroad); 

(iv) Executive Order 14007 of January 27, 2021 (President’s Council of 

Advisors on Science and Technology); 

(v) Executive Order 14013 of February 4, 2021 (Rebuilding and Enhancing 

Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate 

Change on Migration); 

(vi) Executive Order 14027 of May 7, 2021 (Establishment of the Climate 

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(vii) Executive Order 14030 of May 20, 2021 (Climate-Related Financial 

Risk); 

(viii) Executive Order 14037 of August 5, 2021 (Strengthening American 

Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks); 

(ix) Executive Order 14057 of December 8, 2021 (Catalyzing Clean Energy 

Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability); 

(x) Executive Order 14072 of April 22, 2022 (Strengthening the Nation’s 

Forests, Communities, and Local Economies); 

(xi) Executive Order 14082 of September 12, 2022 (Implementation of 

the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act 

of 2022); and 

(xii) Executive Order 14096 of April 21, 2023 (Revitalizing Our Nation’s 

Commitment to Environmental Justice for All). 

(b) All activities, programs, and operations associated with the American 

Climate Corps, including actions taken by any agency shall be terminated 

immediately. Within one day of the date of this order, the Secretary of 

the Interior shall submit a letter to all parties to the ‘‘American Climate 

Corps Memorandum of Understanding’’ dated December 2023 to terminate 

the memorandum, and the head of each party to the memorandum shall 

agree to the termination in writing. 

(c) Any assets, funds, or resources allocated to an entity or program 

abolished by subsection (a) of this section shall be redirected or disposed 

of in accordance with applicable law. 

(d) The head of any agency that has taken action respecting offices and 

programs in subsection (a) shall take all necessary steps to ensure that 

all such actions are terminated or, if necessary, appropriate, or required 

by law, that such activities are transitioned to other agencies or entities. 

(e) Any contract or agreement between the United States and any third 

party on behalf of the entities or programs abolished in subsection (a) 

of this section, or in furtherance of them, shall be terminated for convenience, 

or otherwise, as quickly as permissible under the law. 

Sec. 5. Unleashing Energy Dominance through Efficient Permitting. (a) Executive Order 11991 of May 24, 1977 (Relating to protection and enhancement 

of environmental quality) is hereby revoked. 

(b) To expedite and simplify the permitting process, within 30 days of 

the date of this order, the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ) shall provide guidance on implementing the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and propose rescinding CEQ’s 

NEPA regulations found at 40 CFR 1500 et seq. 

(c) Following the provision of the guidance, the Chairman of CEQ shall 

convene a working group to coordinate the revision of agency-level implementing regulations for consistency. The guidance in subsection (b) and 

any resulting implementing regulations must expedite permitting approvals 

and meet deadlines established in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 

(Public Law 118–5). Consistent with applicable law, all agencies must 

prioritize efficiency and certainty over any other objectives, including those 

of activist groups, that do not align with the policy goals set forth in 

section 2 of this order or that could otherwise add delays and ambiguity 

to the permitting process. 

(d) The Secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Housing 

and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, Homeland Security, the 

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Chairman 

of CEQ, and the heads of any other relevant agencies shall undertake all 

available efforts to eliminate all delays within their respective permitting 

processes, including through, but not limited to, the use of general permitting 

and permit by rule. For any project an agency head deems essential for 

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authorities, including emergency authorities, to expedite the adjudication 

of Federal permits. Agencies shall work closely with project sponsors to 

realize the ultimate construction or development of permitted projects. 

(e) The Director of the NEC and the Director of the Office of Legislative 

Affairs shall jointly prepare recommendations to Congress, which shall: 

(i) facilitate the permitting and construction of interstate energy transportation and other critical energy infrastructure, including, but not limited 

to, pipelines, particularly in regions of the Nation that have lacked such 

development in recent years; and 

(ii) provide greater certainty in the Federal permitting process, including, 

but not limited to, streamlining the judicial review of the application 

of NEPA. 

Sec. 6. Prioritizing Accuracy in Environmental Analyses. (a) In all Federal 

permitting adjudications or regulatory processes, all agencies shall adhere 

to only the relevant legislated requirements for environmental considerations 

and any considerations beyond these requirements are eliminated. In fulfilling all such requirements, agencies shall strictly use the most robust 

methodologies of assessment at their disposal and shall not use methodologies that are arbitrary or ideologically motivated. 

(b) The Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse 

Gases (IWG), which was established pursuant to Executive Order 13990, 

is hereby disbanded, and any guidance, instruction, recommendation, or 

document issued by the IWG is withdrawn as no longer representative 

of governmental policy including: 

(i) the Presidential Memorandum of January 27, 2021 (Restoring Trust 

in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking); 

(ii) the Report of the Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Measurement Interagency Working Group of November 2023 (National Strategy to Advance 

an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System); 

(iii) the Technical Support Document of February 2021 (Social Cost of 

Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates under Executive 

Order 13990); and 

(iv) estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases, including the estimates 

for the social cost of carbon, the social cost of methane, or the social 

cost of nitrous oxide based, in whole or in part, on the IWG’s work 

or guidance. 

(c) The calculation of the ‘‘social cost of carbon’’ is marked by logical 

deficiencies, a poor basis in empirical science, politicization, and the absence 

of a foundation in legislation. Its abuse arbitrarily slows regulatory decisions 

and, by rendering the United States economy internationally uncompetitive, 

encourages a greater human impact on the environment by affording less 

efficient foreign energy producers a greater share of the global energy and 

natural resource market. Consequently, within 60 days of the date of this 

order, the Administrator of the EPA shall issue guidance to address these 

harmful and detrimental inadequacies, including consideration of eliminating 

the ‘‘social cost of carbon’’ calculation from any Federal permitting or regulatory decision. 

(d) Prior to the guidance issued pursuant to subsection (c) of this section, 

agencies shall ensure estimates to assess the value of changes in greenhouse 

gas emissions resulting from agency actions, including with respect to the 

consideration of domestic versus international effects and evaluating appropriate discount rates, are, to the extent permitted by law, consistent with 

the guidance contained in OMB Circular A–4 of September 17, 2003 (Regulatory Analysis). 

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any rule, regulation, policy or action as may be necessary to ensure consistency with the Regulatory Analysis. 

(f) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Administrator of the 

EPA, in collaboration with the heads of any other relevant agencies, shall 

submit joint recommendations to the Director of OMB on the legality and 

continuing applicability of the Administrator’s findings, ‘‘Endangerment and 

Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) 

of the Clean Air Act,’’ Final Rule, 74 FR 66496 (December 15, 2009). 

Sec. 7. Terminating the Green New Deal. (a) All agencies shall immediately 

pause the disbursement of funds appropriated through the Inflation Reduction 

Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–169) or the Infrastructure Investment and 

Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58), including but not limited to funds for electric 

vehicle charging stations made available through the National Electric Vehicle 

Infrastructure Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure 

Discretionary Grant Program, and shall review their processes, policies, and 

programs for issuing grants, loans, contracts, or any other financial disbursements of such appropriated funds for consistency with the law and the 

policy outlined in section 2 of this order. Within 90 days of the date 

of this order, all agency heads shall submit a report to the Director of 

the NEC and Director of OMB that details the findings of this review, 

including recommendations to enhance their alignment with the policy set 

forth in section 2. No funds identified in this subsection (a) shall be disbursed 

by a given agency until the Director of OMB and Assistant to the President 

for Economic Policy have determined that such disbursements are consistent 

with any review recommendations they have chosen to adopt. 

(b) When procuring goods and services, making decisions about leases, 

and making other arrangements that result in disbursements of Federal funds, 

agencies shall prioritize cost-effectiveness, American workers and businesses, 

and the sensible use of taxpayer money, to the greatest extent. The Director 

of OMB shall finalize and circulate guidelines to further implement this 

subsection. 

(c) All agencies shall assess whether enforcement discretion of authorities 

and regulations can be utilized to advance the policy outlined in section 

2 of this order. Within 30 days of the date of this order, each agency 

shall submit a report to the Director of OMB identifying any such instances. 

Sec. 8. Protecting America’s National Security. (a) The Secretary of Energy 

is directed restart reviews of applications for approvals of liquified natural 

gas export projects as expeditiously as possible, consistent with applicable 

law. In assessing the ‘‘Public Interest’’ to be advanced by any particular 

application, the Secretary of Energy shall consider the economic and employment impacts to the United States and the impact to the security of allies 

and partners that would result from granting the application. 

(b) With respect to any proposed deepwater port for the export of liquefied 

natural gas (project) for which a favorable record of decision (ROD) has 

previously been issued pursuant to the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (DWPA), 

33 U.S.C. 1501 et seq., the Administrator of the Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) shall, within 30 days of the date of this order and consistent 

with applicable law, determine whether any refinements to the project proposed subsequent to the ROD are likely to result in adverse environmental 

consequences that substantially differ from those associated with the originally-evaluated project so as to present a seriously different picture of the 

foreseeable adverse environmental consequences (seriously different consequences). In making this determination, MARAD shall qualitatively assess 

any difference in adverse environmental consequences between the project 

with and without the proposed refinements, including any potential consequences not addressed in the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

which shall be considered adequate under NEPA notwithstanding any revisions to NEPA that may have been enacted following the final EIS. MARAD 

shall submit this determination, together with a detailed justification, to 

the Secretary of Transportation and to the President. 


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(c) Pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, if MARAD determines that 

such refinements are not likely to result in seriously different consequences, 

it shall include in that determination a description of the refinements to 

supplement and update the ROD, if necessary and then no later than 30 

additional days, he shall issue a DWPA license. 

(d) If MARAD determines, with concurrence from the Secretary of Transportation, that such proposed refinements are likely to result in seriously 

different consequences, it shall, within 60 days after submitting such determination, issue an Environmental Assessment (EA) examining such consequences and, with respect to all other environmental consequences not 

changed due to project refinements, shall reaffirm the conclusions of the 

final EIS. Within 30 days after issuing the EA, MARAD shall issue an 

addendum to the ROD, if necessary, and shall, within 30 additional days, 

issue a DWPA license consistent with the ROD. 

Sec. 9. Restoring America’s Mineral Dominance. (a) The Secretary of the 

Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Administrator of the EPA, Chairman of 

CEQ, and the heads of any other relevant agencies, as appropriate, shall 

identify all agency actions that impose undue burdens on the domestic 

mining and processing of non-fuel minerals and undertake steps to revise 

or rescind such actions. 

(b) The Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture shall reassess any public 

lands withdrawals for potential revision. 

(c) The Secretary of the Interior shall instruct the Director of the U.S. 

Geological Survey to consider updating the Survey’s list of critical minerals, 

including for the potential of including uranium. 

(d) The Secretary of the Interior shall prioritize efforts to accelerate the 

ongoing, detailed geologic mapping of the United States, with a focus on 

locating previously unknown deposits of critical minerals. 

(e) The Secretary of Energy shall ensure that critical mineral projects, 

including the processing of critical minerals, receive consideration for Federal 

support, contingent on the availability of appropriated funds. 

(f) The United States Trade Representative shall assess whether exploitative 

practices and state-assisted mineral projects abroad are unlawful or unduly 

burden or restrict United States commerce. 

(g) The Secretary of Commerce shall assess the national security implications of the Nation’s mineral reliance and the potential for trade action. 

(h) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall assess the quantity and 

inflow of minerals that are likely the product of forced labor into the 

United States and whether such inflows pose a threat to national security 

and, within 90 days of the date of this order, shall provide this assessment 

to the Director of the NEC. 

(i) The Secretary of Defense shall consider the needs of the United States 

in supplying and maintaining the National Defense Stockpile, review the 

legal authorities and obligations in managing the National Defense Stockpile, 

and take all appropriate steps to ensure that the National Defense Stockpile 

will provide a robust supply of critical minerals in event of future shortfall. 

(j) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of State, Secretary 

of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, the United States Trade Representative, 

and the heads of any other relevant agencies, shall submit a report to 

the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy that includes policy 

recommendations to enhance the competitiveness of American mining and 

refining companies in other mineral-wealthy nations. 

(k) The Secretary of State shall consider opportunities to advance the 

mining and processing of minerals within the United States through the 

Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. 

Sec. 10. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed 

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(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, 

or the head thereof; or 

(ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(b) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with applicable 

law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, 

substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party 

against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, 

employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 20, 2025. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01956 

Filed 1–28–25; 8:45 am] 

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