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1 | Name of EO/PM/Statement etc. | Date | Link to Document | Issue Areas | Short Summary | Notes | Implementation guidance | Press | |||||||||||||||||
2 | INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/ | Offshore drilling and 12(a), environmental justice, 30x30, climate, science, agency power in regulations | Recision of 78 Biden Era EO's and Presidential Memoranda | Including revoking 5 offshore drilling withdrawals -- 4 in Alaska and the 1 for the Atlantic/Pacific/Eastern Gulf. Details on some Biden EOs revoked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nhzscag_ewHazqoEm7cCZe1_EYFO8xRHvaDXU-u1YiQ/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes Biden EO 13990: “Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis”: | ODI summary of ocean highlights of Biden's first EOs: Ocean Highlights: Biden's First 100 Days | Biden EO 13990 directed the review of the boundaries and conditions of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts; reinstated the Obama-era 12a withdrawals in the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area; reinstated the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard for higher construction standards on buildings or infrastructure in flood zones that are built with federal money; and revoked the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline. | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes Biden EO 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad | Calls for quick action to build resilience against the impacts of climate change, bolster adaptation, and increase resilience across all operations, programs, assets, and mission responsibilities with a focus on the most pressing climate vulnerabilities. | Biden EO 14008 established White House Domestic Climate Policy office, National Climate Task Force, White House interagency council on environmental justice; committed to the goal of conserving at least 30 % of lands and ocean by 2030; paused new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or offshore waters; launched review of all existing leasing and permitting practices related to fossil fuel development on public lands and waters; and called for identifying steps that can be taken to double renewable energy production from offshore wind by 2030; and signed a memorandum restoring scientific integrity and evidence-based policymaking by directing agencies to make decisions guided by the best available science and data. | ||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes Biden EO 14057: Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability | This Biden EO formed the basis for Secretary Haaland's order to reduce plastic waste produced by the Department of the Interior (Secretarial Order No. 3407). | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes Biden EO 14030: Climate-Related Financial Risk | Reverses required disclosure of climate-related financial risk and action to mitigate that risk and its drivers while achieving a net-zero emissions economy by 2050 | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes: The Presidential Memorandum of March 13, 2023 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the United States Arctic Coast of the Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Gas Leasing). | This undoes the Beaufort sea and NPR-A withdrawal | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes: The Presidential Memorandum of January 6, 2025 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing). | Atlantic, Pacific, Eastern Gulf of Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes: The Presidential Memorandum of January 6, 2025 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing). | Bering Sea resilience area | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes: Executive Order 14096 of April 21, 2023 (Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government’s Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind Projects | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects/ | Offshore wind | withdraws from disposition for wind energy leasing all areas within the Offshore Continental Shelf “until this Presidential Memorandum is revoked”; orders a comprehensive review of the ecological, economic, and environmental necessity of terminating or amending any existing wind energy leases; orders a pause and Review of Federal Wind Leasing and Permitting Practices; orders a review of the Lava Ridge Wind Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). | April 16, 2025: Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says permits were 'rushed through' under Biden | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency/ | Energy, offshore drilling, critical minerals, MMPA/ESA, permitting | Requires Agencies to identify emergency and legal authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources. Agencies shall use all authorities to expedite the completion of all authorized and appropriated infrastructure, energy, environmental, and natural resources projects. Assess how planned or potential actions may be subject to emergency treatments under the Clean Water Act, Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, or Endangered Species Act. Agencies should use emergency Army Corps permitting provisions to facilitate energy supply. Convene the ESA "God Squad" Committee quarterly to assess permits and applications and grant determinations within 20 days. Assess how ESA and MMPA obstruct energy development and make recommendations for regulatory reforms, species listings and other "improvements". Defines Energy Resources as: crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals, as defined by 30 U.S.C. 1606 (a)(3). Excludes wind and solar from energy definition. | April 23, 2025 - DOI publishes "Department of the Interior Implements Emergency Permitting Procedures to Strengthen Domestic Energy Supply". Aiming to truncate EAs to 14 days and EIS processes to 28 days – applied to energy sources that include oil, gas, coal, and minerals – predicated on the President’s “energy emergency.” It includes expedited ESA and NHPA processes as well. | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | RETURN TO IN PERSON WORK | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/return-to-in-person-work/ | Agency operations - dismantling of Fed workforce | Requires agencies to take all steps necessary to terminate remote workers and mandate full time return to office policies | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | REGULATORY FREEZE PENDING REVIEW | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/ | Agency operations | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | HIRING FREEZE | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/hiring-freeze/ | Agency operations - dismantling of Fed workforce | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Delivering Emergency Price Relief for American Families and Defeating the Cost-of-Living Crisis | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/delivering-emergency-price-relief-for-american-families-and-defeating-the-cost-of-living-crisis/ | climate policies - likely energy as well | "This shall include pursuing appropriate actions to: ... eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies that increase the costs of food and fuel." | TBD what specific policies this impacts | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | PUTTING AMERICA FIRST IN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements/ | Climate & Energy - Paris Agreement | Withdrawal from Paris agreement. ENERGY: "head of any department or agency that plans or coordinates international energy agreements shall henceforth prioritize economic efficiency, the promotion of American prosperity, consumer choice, and fiscal restraint in all foreign engagements that concern energy policy." | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY TO POLICY-INFLUENCING POSITIONS WITHIN THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/ | Federal Workforce - Schedule F | Reinstates Schedule F - Directs Agency heads and directors to recommend which positions to reclassify as political appointees, potentially allowing for the firing of 50,000 career employees and scientists. | A Judge has temporarily delayed the resignation deadline for OPM's "fork" email. A hearing is scheduled for Monday 2/10 at 2pm EST to assess legality of the offer. | OPM Memo on implementation - allows for a broad swath of positions to be categorized as political appointees | ||||||||||||||||||
19 | UNLEASHING AMERICAN ENERGY | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/ | Energy - Offshore drillling, permitting, climate regulations, NEPA | Encourages energy exploration in public waters and lands, extraction of critical minerals, orders review of regulatory requirements related to energy and all agency actions that impact energy, guarantees all executive departments and agencies provide opportunity for public comment and reigorour peer reviewed scientific analysis, and prevent federal funding from being used counter to the intent of this order. Revoke EOs relating to climate and eliminate relevant offices created within them. Revokes Executive Order 11991 of May 24, 1977 (Relating to protection and enhancement of environmental quality). Begins review of NEPA and requires resulting regulations to expedite permitting approvals. Requires agencies to use all authorities and emergency declarations to expedite permits. Suspends all funds from IRA and IIJA for review. Restarts review of LNG exports. Review US critical mineral needs and efforts to mine, process and trade them. | This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. This memo guides agecies to prioritize efficiency and certainty over any other policy objectives that could add delays and ambiguity to the permitting process. | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Reviews: 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). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Disbands: Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG), which was established pursuant to Executive Order 13990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Revokes: Executive Order 11991 of May 24, 1977 (Relating to protection and enhancement of environmental quality). Note this EO requires Environmental Impact Statements and community consultation under NEPA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Jan 20, 2025 | same | Withdraws: Presidential Memorandum of January 27, 2021 (Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking) | Directed agencies to make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | PUTTING PEOPLE OVER FISH: STOPPING RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM TO PROVIDE WATER TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-people-over-fish-stopping-radical-environmentalism-to-provide-water-to-southern-california/ | Restarting the work from Trump's first Administration by the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies to route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state for use by the people there who desperately need a reliable water supply. | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | UNLEASHING ALASKA'S EXTRAORDINARY RESOURCE POTENTIAL | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-alaskas-extraordinary-resource-potential/ | withdraw Secretarial Order 3401 dated June 1, 2021; rescind the cancellation of any leases within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; rescind the final supplemental environmental impact statement entitled “Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement,” place a temporary moratorium on all activities and privileges granted to any party pursuant to the record of decision signed on December 8, 2024, entitled “Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision; reinstate the final environmental impact statement entitled “Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program; einstate the record of decision signed on August 21, 2020, entitled “Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision; place a temporary moratorium on all activities and privileges granted to any party pursuant to the record of decision signed on June 27, 2024, entitled “Ambler Road Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision; rescind the Bureau of Land Management final rule entitled “Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska,”; rescind the Bureau of Land Management final rule entitled “Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska,”; rescinds other decisions and rules related to protections against natural resource extraction. | Fully avail itself of Alaska’s vast lands and resources for the benefit of the Nation and the American citizens who call Alaska home; efficiently and effectively maximize the development and production of the natural resources located on both Federal and State lands within Alaska; expedite the permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects in Alaska; and prioritize the development of Alaska’s liquified natural gas (LNG) potential, including the sale and transportation of Alaskan LNG to other regions of the United States and allied nations within the Pacific region. | Reinstate the following Public Land Orders in their original form: Public Land Order No. 7899, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on January 11, 2021; Public Land Order No. 7900, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on January 16, 2021; Public Land Order No. 7901, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on January 16, 2021; Public Land Order No. 7902, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on January 15, 2021; Public Land Order No. 7903, signed by the Secretary of the Interior on January 16, 2021; and | Secretarial Order 3422 from DOI; March 20, 2025 Press Release: Interior Secretary Takes Steps to Unleash Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential | ||||||||||||||||||
26 | ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” (EO 14158) | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/ | Federal Workforce - Science | Renames US Digital Service as DOGE. Establishes an Administrator who will advance the Presidents 18 month agenda. Tasked with completing a software modernization initiative across the government. | 14 States filed a lawsuit claiming that Elon Musk’s constitutional authority to exercise significant government powers as the head of DOGE without Senate confirmation violates the Appointments Clause. On Feb. 17, the government submitted a declaration by Joshua Fisher, Director of the Office of Administration, stating that Musk is not the head of DOGE nor an employee of DOGE. Other lawsuits include: Twenty-six current and former USAID employees or contractors filed a lawsuit claiming that Elon Musk’s constitutional authority to exercise significant government powers as the head of DOGE without Senate confirmation violates the Appointments Clause; The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Office of Management and Budget under the Freedom of Information Act; Several advocacy organizations sued, arguing that the order violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act; National Security Counselors, Inc., sued, arguing that the order violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act; Two advocacy organizations and the American Federation of Government Employees sued, arguing that the order violates the Federal Advisory Committee Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | ENDING RADICAL AND WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT DEI PROGRAMS AND PREFERENCING | Jan 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-and-wasteful-government-dei-programs-and-preferencing/ | Agency operations; environmental justice; climate justice; federal workforce; DEIJ program | ~~ Directs OMB Director, Attorney General, and OPM Director to coordinate the termination of all discriminatory programs, mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities via review/revision of govt practicies/contracts/ policies. ~~ Tasks agencies within 60 days to: terminate all DEI/DEIA/EJ offices, positions, equity plans/actions/initiatives/programs grants/contracts, and DEI/DEIA performance requirements to extent allowed by law ~~ Give OMB a list of everything DEI from that agency/dept in existence on 11/4/2024 and if they'd been relabeled to preserved their pre-11/4/24 functions. They're also to give OMB lists of contractors who've provided DEI training/materials to feds and federal grantees who got money to advance DEI/DEIA/EJ programs/activities. | NOTE: employees with pronouns in their email signature or other materials will be considered in violation of this EO. Pronouns may be used as a way to identify or target employees to fire. This is not made clear to staff but is the interpretation of high level appointees. | OPM Memo on implementation - States "each agency, department, or commission head shall take action to terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” offices and positions within sixty days. | ||||||||||||||||||
28 | EMERGENCY MEASURES TO PROVIDE WATER RESOURCES IN CALIFORNIA AND IMPROVE DISASTER RESPONSE IN CERTAIN AREAS | Jan 24, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/emergency-measures-to-provide-water-resources-in-california-and-improve-disaster-response-in-certain-areas/ | Permitting, NEPA, ESA | Directs Secretaries of Interior and Commerce to review bedrock environmental laws and make recommendations to expedite permits and actions related to exceptions for protections for all threatened and endangered species, consolidate responsibility to one person at each agency, and make recommendations to minimize the impact these laws have on permitting and maximize water delivery to the Central Valley Project and high water demand areas. Also requires OMB to review all regulations that impact land and water management and make recommendations for changes within 30 days. | Language in Section 2g and Section 3 lays the groundwork for significant changes to bedrock environmental laws and potention reorganization of Agency responsibilities. | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | NOTE THIS MEMO HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY WITHDRAWN HOWEVER SOME FREEZES STILL IN EFFECT: OPM Temporary pause on grants, loans, etc. | Jan 27, 2025 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/deb7af80-48b6-4b8a-8bfa-3d84fd7c3ec8.pdf | IRA/IIJA, DEI, Energy, grants/federal funding | Initiates immediate pause on all federal funding. The memo specifically condemns “the use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.” It also refers to several executive orders issued last week, including those targeting funding from the Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. | Invokes a mandatory pause pending review and potential recision of federal assistance. This is an unconstitutional attempt to consolidate power into the executive branch by pausing and rejecting funding authorized by Congress. This lays the ground for Presidential impoundment of Congressionally mandated funding. It is unclear when reviews will be complete and which programs will have funding rescinded. Link to CDP Resource Folder here. This memo has since been withdrawn, pending a legal challenge, however the freeze remains in effect for select programs related to DEI, Foreign Aid, IRA/IIJA, and the "green new deal". As of February 25, a judge extended the pause on this EO, like the temporary restraining order, the injunction prevents the Trump administration from again carrying out the funding freeze using the same memo or a different directive. | Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13 | Democracy Docket, Federal Judge Extends Halt To Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. | |||||||||||||||||
30 | Implementing The President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative (EO 14210) | Feb 11, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/ | Federal Workforce | EO directing agencies to start the process for Reduction in Force (RIF), implementing a new hiring limit (4 employees must be eliminated for every new hire), and early planning steps for agency heads to begin dismantling agencies. It also expands the reasons why an employee is deemed unsuitable (super important things like filing tax returns on time...), and a requirement for agency heads to identify "any statutes that establish the agency, or subcomponents of the agency, as statutorily required entities" and submit a report that "shall discuss whether the agency or any of its subcomponents should be eliminated or consolidated." | Probationary employees (often categorized as employees with less than 1 - 2 years at an agency) have been fired from key agencies across the government. While NOAA has yet to see mayy firings through the Administration's RIF efforts, they could come shortly. The Administration has alleged they are firing employees based on their performance, despite many employees who have been fired recieveing excellent performance reviews. The Administration's actions are being challenged in courts and may be subject to a reversal, pause, or class action settlement. Several Federal employee unions are challenging the Administration's actions and a court case is scheduled for Feb 18 at 3pm. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered OPM to inform several federal agencies that it had no authority to direct them to carry out mass firings, and that such actions were likely illegal. Cuts to NOAA happened on Feb 27. In a decisions on March 13th, a federal judge ruled that 18 agenceis must reinstate ~24,000 illegally terminated probationary employees by March 17th, the ruling included NOAA employees. Updates on actions here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69634526/national-treasury-employees-union-v-donald-j-trump/ | OMB/OPM guidance memo sent 2/26/25. Revised OPM memo shared on March 4th, on probationary employees, notes "Please note that, by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees. Agencies have ultimate decision-making authority over, and responsibility for, such personnel actions." and states that "OPM requests that agencies not issue any agency-specific rules until such rules have been reviewed and approved by OPM". It is unclear how this new guidance will impact already fired employees. | AP article on cuts in each department: https://apnews.com/article/doge-firings-layoffs-federal-government-workers-musk-d33cdd7872d64d2bdd8fe70c28652654 HuffPost Article on OPM memos regarding firing of probationary employees: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-reverses-directive-fire-federal-employees_n_67c65042e4b044c440ed75bd On July 8th the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court order that had blocked large-scale federal layoffs called "reductions in force", allotting the President to continue mass layoffs and agency reorganizations while litigation in the case proceeds. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-supreme-court-lifts-order-that-blocked-trumps-mass-federal-layoffs-2025-07-08/ | |||||||||||||||||
31 | Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation | Feb 14, 2025 | https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-unleashing-prosperity-through-deregulation | Regulations and government rule makings, energy | ELIMINATING 10 REGULATIONS FOR EACH NEW REGULATION ISSUED: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to unleash prosperity through deregulation. The Order requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget will ensure standardized measurement and estimation of regulatory costs. It requires that for fiscal year 2025, the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, be significantly less than zero. Factsheet suggests energy prices are increased by regulations. | Fisheries seasons require rulemakings, in Trump 1 these rulemakings were exempt from the 2:1 deregulation attempt. Fisheries seasons open in March for a number of US commercial fisheries, including warmwater pink shrimp, Pacific halibut, and lingcod. | Fact Sheet: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-massive-10-to-1-deregulation-initiative/ March 26, 2025: Trump Administration issues implementation guidance exempting routine regulatory actions related to fishing and hunting from this deregulation order (See Q26): https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/M-25-20-Guidance-Implementing-Section-3-of-Executive-Order-14192-Titled-Unleashing-Prosperity-Through-Deregulation.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||
32 | IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” COST EFFICIENCY INITIATIVE | Feb 26, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-cost-efficiency-initiative/ | Federal Workforce | DOGE to review all existing covered contracts and grants to reduce all federal spending ; non essential travel justification; 30 day credit card freeze for cards held by all agency employees | ||||||||||||||||||||
33 | ESTABLISHING THE NATIONAL ENERGY DOMINANCE COUNCIL | Feb 14, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/establishing-the-national-energy-dominance-council/ | Energy, permitting, OCS | Establishes a council, chaired by Sec. of Interior, and composed of agency heads to advise the President on executive actions he can take to make America "energy dominant" through increased production, rapidly approve energy permits and new LNG pipelines in areas "underserved" by American natural gas including CA, AK, and New England, reopening closed power plants and bringing small modular reactors online. Within 100 days the council shall create a National Energy Dominance Strategy that eliminates, "longstanding, but unnecessary, regulation"; recommend a plan to "raise awareness" of the importance of "reliable energy" aka fossil fuels; advise the PResident to identify and end practices that raise the cost of energy; advise on incentives to attract and retain private sector investments in energy production; consult with local, state and tribal governments to expand all forms of energy production. Grants Chair of the council a seat on the National Security Council. | EPA administrator Zeldin has privately recommended to strike down the endangerment finding, the foundational scientific finding that carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate-changing pollutants are dangerous to our health and well-being and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. | |||||||||||||||||||
34 | Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies | Feb 18, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/ | Federal workforce, Presidential power, regulations and agency actions | Asserts that "The Constitution vests all executive power in the President and charges him with faithfully executing the laws." Claims that all executive branch employees, including those at the Federal Election Commission, are responsible for carrying out the President's policies and priorities. Further limits agency employee actions stating: "The President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are controlling on all employees in the conduct of their official duties. No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law, including but not limited to the issuance of regulations, guidance, and positions advanced in litigation, unless authorized to do so by the President or in writing by the Attorney General." | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | ENSURING LAWFUL GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S “DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY” DEREGULATORY INITIATIVE | Feb 19, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-lawful-governance-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-regulatory-initiative/ | Regulations, rulemakings, agency authority, DOGE | States, "It is the policy of my Administration to focus the executive branch’s limited enforcement resources on regulations squarely authorized by constitutional Federal statutes, and to commence the deconstruction of the overbearing and burdensome administrative state." Requires agency heads to work with DOGE employees and review all rules and regulations that may conflict with administration policies or ideals. Agency heads shall provide a list of regulations and rules which may conflict with the President's wishes within 60 days. | ||||||||||||||||||||
36 | COMMENCING THE REDUCTION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY | Feb 19, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/commencing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/ | Federal workforce | Terminates or reduces portions of governmental entities and Federal Advisory Committees that the President deems unnecessary. Eliminates the Presidential Management Fellowship and calls for reduction of all portions and function of the Presidio Trust; the Inter-American Foundation; the United States African Development Foundation; and the United States Institute of Peace which are not enshrined in law. | This has impacted 4 of NOAA's FACS: Climate services, Excellence in space, Marine conservation area based management, and MA FAC. | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness of the Federal Workforce | March 20, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/strengthening-the-suitability-and-fitness-of-the-federal-workforce/ | Federal Workforce | Attempts to give the director of OPM authority to fire federal civil servants in the agencies if they do not align with the President's agenda. | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Protecting American Energy from State Overreach | April 8, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/ | Energy, permitting, OCS, climate, environmental justice, States | Claims, "American energy dominance is threatened when State and local governments seek to regulate energy beyond their constitutional or statutory authorities." Identifies CA, NY, and VT climate policies as threatening energy dominance. Directs the Attorney General to consult with agency and department heads to identify laws, policies and practices that are, or may be, unconstitutional, preempt Federal law, or are unenforceable. Prioritizes addressing laws that focus on: “climate change”, “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions, and funds to collect carbon penalties or carbon taxes. Directs the Attorney General to stop enforcement of actions it determines are illegal and recommend additional Presidential or legal action nesessary to stop enforcement of laws identified in this work. | ||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Restoring America's Maritime Dominance | April 9, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-americas-maritime-dominance/ | National Security, Ports, Ships, NOAA, Arctic | Establishes that is it US policy to "revitalize and rebuild domestic maritime industries and workforce to promote national security and economic prosperity". Requires a Maritime Action Plan to invest in and expand commercial and defense shipbuilding capabilities, relevant supply chains, ship repair and marine transportation capabilities, port infrastructure, and the adjacent workforce. Requires investigation and subsequent penalties or tarrifs on the PRC's maritime products and sector. Take additional steps to enforce relevant fees and incentivise investments in US based shipping, ports, and maritime trade. Requires a strategy to secure Arctic waterways. Requires a regulatory review to deregulate ports and maritime sector. | ||||||||||||||||||||
40 | ZERO-BASED REGULATORY BUDGETING TO UNLEASH AMERICAN ENERGY | April 9, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/zero-based-regulatory-budgeting-to-unleash-american-energy/ | Energy, Permitting, DOGE, bedrock environmental laws | Requires agencies to issue sunset dates on "all regulations" under numerous laws, including ESA, OCSLA, MMPA, and many others related to biodiversity, climate, and environment. Requires rules establishing these conditional sunset dates to be in place and in effect by September 30. Notably, the Department of Commerce and NOAA are not listed as impacted agencies under this EO. | This order could undercut everything from safety procedures designed to prevent another Deepwater Horizon-scale oil spill to the critical safeguards that protect our most endangered whales. It could create innumerable costs for coastal communities, fishermen, and others who rely on the ocean for their livelihood. The sunset rules will create chaos and uncertainty for environmental regulators and everyone who relies on predictable rules and regulations. | |||||||||||||||||||
41 | Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness | April 17, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-american-seafood-competitiveness/ | Fisheries, MPAs, Regulations | Includes provisions that: Criticize fisheries regulations and direct the Secretary of Commerce to immediately suspend, revise, or rescind existing fisheries regulations; Try to advance technology, cooperative research, modernize data collection and analysis, despite the Administration's significant cuts to NOAA staff and budget; Seek to advance the use of exempted fishing permits–which often exceed sustainable catch limits; Create a seafood trade strategy to address fisheries industry struggles that will likely be made worse by the Administration’s tariff policies; Pave the way for opening all marine monuments to commercial fishing; Require revision or recission of the recent expansion of Seafood Import Monitoring Program, a program that prevents illegal, unregulated, unreported seafood or seafood linked to forced labor from making it into the US market. | ||||||||||||||||||||
42 | UNLEASHING AMERICAN COMMERCIAL FISHING IN THE PACIFIC | April 17, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/unleashing-american-commercial-fishing-in-the-pacific/ | Fisheries, MPAs | Rolls back protections for the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIHMNM), opening it to industrial fishing | ||||||||||||||||||||
43 | REVITALIZING AMERICAN DOMINANCE IN DEEP SEABED MINERALS | April 24, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-unleashes-americas-offshore-critical-minerals-and-resources/ | Deep Sea Mining | Orders rapid development of domestic capabilities for exploration, characterization, collection, and processing of critical deep seabed minerals. | ||||||||||||||||||||
44 | The White House Council on Environmental Quality Establishes Permitting Innovation Center | April 30, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/the-white-house-council-on-environmental-quality-establishes-permitting-innovation-center/ | Permitting, NEPA | Establishes the Permitting Innovation Center to leverage modern technology to effectively and efficiently conduct environmental reviews and evaluate permits for infrastructure projects of all kinds. A NEPA data and technology standard will be developed. The PIC will design and test prototype software systems for potential implementation by agencies pursuant to the Permitting Technology Action Plan. | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | TBD! | MPAs | Rolls back protections for the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, opening it to industrial fishing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Restore Gold Standard Science | May 23, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/president-trump-signs-executive-orders-to-usher-in-a-nuclear-renaissance-restore-gold-standard-science/#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20federal%20agencies,that%20meets%20the%20Gold%20Standard. | Science, regulations | The EO defines Gold Standard Science and requires federal research agencies to conform their existing programs and activities to these fundamentals. In addition to federal agencies, the Trump Administration is issuing a call to excellence for all American researchers and academic institutions to go back to the basics by restoring Gold Standard Science. Defines Gold Standard Science as: reproducible, transparent, falsifiable, subject to unbiased peer review, clear about errors and uncertainties, skeptical of assumptions, collaborative, interdisciplinary, accepting of negative results, and free from conflicts of interests. | Will likely be used to question scientific findings that the Administration does not agree with - or demand a review of all regulations and policies that are based on science for which the Administration has alternative studies to point to, even if fringe | |||||||||||||||||||
47 | DOJ Opinion - Revocation of Prior Monument Designations | June 10, 2025 | https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1403101/dl | Antiquities Act, Marine National Monuments | Argues that the President should disavow legal precedent for treating the declaration of a monument under the Antiquities Act as irrevocable and that the Administration should revoke National Monuments created by President Biden. | This is not surprising but is consistent with the admin's calls to review monuments, "rightsize" them and deconflict them with economic interests like fishing and energy as has been proposed in Project 2025 (pg. 523 - they are hoping to take these rollbacks to SCOTUS and eliminate the Antiquities Act altogether), by Sec. Burgum's DOI Strategic Plan, and the review of all marine monuments ordered by the Seafood Competitiveness EO. It is also consistent with the Robert opinion re: NECSM/AA. | |||||||||||||||||||
48 | ESTABLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S MAKE AMERICA BEAUTIFUL AGAIN COMMISSION | July 3, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/establishing-the-presidents-make-america-beautiful-again-commission/ | Public lands | Establishes the "President’s Make America Beautiful Again Commission" to advise and assist the President regarding how best to responsibly conserve America’s national treasures and natural resources. This will be chaired by DOI Secretary Burgum. | Focuses on access to public lands and stewardship. | |||||||||||||||||||
49 | ENDING MARKET DISTORTING SUBSIDIES FOR UNRELIABLE, FOREIGN CONTROLLED ENERGY SOURCES | July 7, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-market-distorting-subsidies-for-unreliable-foreign%E2%80%91controlled-energy-sources/ | Offshore wind, renewable energy | Disincentivises renewable energy investments. Requires Treasury to provide guidance surrounding renewable energy tax credits to ensure there is no preferrential treatment for wind and solar facilities. Requires Interior to look at OCSLA | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | IMPROVING OVERSIGHT OF FEDERAL GRANTMAKING | August 7, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/ | Grantmaking, science/research, academia, Presidential power, regulations and agency actions | Claims to improve oversight of federal grantmaking by requiring all federal grants be subject to approval by Trump-appointed political officials and evaluated according to rigorous criteria aligned with his administration’s 'Gold Standard Science' requirements. Civil servants and subject matter experts have long carried out this role in order to remain unbiased and apolitical. | Allows the administration to reject funding for entities who the administration disagrees with regarding unrelated policy topics like immigration, sex/gender, racial equity, American values and other issues. | |||||||||||||||||||
51 | ENABLING COMPETITION IN THE COMMERCIAL SPACE INDUSTRY | August 14, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/enabling-competition-in-the-commercial-space-industry/ | Coastal Zone Management | Expedites the environmental review for commercial space launches | This could threaten State's ability to decide how they use their coastal zone, a key component of the Coastal Zone Management Act known as "federal consistency" | |||||||||||||||||||
52 | ENSURING CONTINUED ACCOUNTABILITY IN FEDERAL HIRING | October 16, 2025 | https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/ensuring-continued-accountability-in-federal-hiring/ | Federal Hiring | Directs federal agencies to establish Strategic Hiring Committees, made up mostly of political appointees, and staffing plans to ensure that new federal career hires are “consistent with the national interest, agency needs, and the priorities of [the] Administration.” | ||||||||||||||||||||
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