This includes lifting the moratorium on coal leases on federal land, reviewing regulations on fracking on federal and tribal land, developing a five-year plan for offshore drilling and streamlining the federal leasing program and permitting process.” The Interior Department submitted what it called an ‘energy burdens’ report to the president, which outlines some Obama-era regulations it has started to reverse or reform, or has plans to. The Energy Department said it will focus on streamlining natural gas exports, review its national laboratory policies, review National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations for approving major infrastructure projects and reviewing the agency’s popular household appliance standards program. “The EPA will also create a task force to simplify the permit process for building new polluting facilities, weigh options to revamp national ambient air quality standards and launch a “smart sectors” program to engage with industries as it crafts regulations. Here are the other steps that Trump’s agencies will be taking to boost the energy sector, as detailed by Reuters: “We are working to curb unnecessary and duplicative regulatory burdens that do not serve the American people,” Pruitt said in a statement. President: these landmark laws are designed to give us “clean air” and “crystal-clean water.”) One of the most environmentally consequential steps comes from Pruitt’s EPA, which will try to pinpoint how the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act affects energy sectors jobs. Ryan Zinke have each announced separate steps on how they will carry out President Trump’s “energy independence” executive order in March to ease regulatory burdens on energy development. In a shocking report from Reuters, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Energy Sec. That statement-based on Trump’s nine months of environmental rollbacks, from approving the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines to gutting the Clean Power Plan-could not be further from the truth. We talk about the-I want beautiful clean air, and I want crystal-clean water, right? That’s what we want.” “That’s what I want-clean air,” he continued. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA) to its “core mission: clean air and clean water.” Pruitt, a former attorney general for Oklahoma, sued the EPA more than a dozen times over its regulations as top prosecutor for the oil and gas producing state.At a speech in North Dakota last month, President Trump boasted that his administration is refocusing the U.S. Before she joined the EPA in late 2013, she oversaw scientific integrity at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-partisan group advocating stronger environmental protections. Grifo is a biologist who was hired by former President Barack Obama’s administration. economy and has packed his cabinet with people who question the science of climate change. environmental movement and the administration of President Donald Trump, who has called global warming a hoax meant to weaken the U.S. The request by Sierra Club ramps up tension between the U.S. An overwhelming majority of scientists think that carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are a major contributor to global climate change, triggering sea level rise, droughts and more frequent violent storms.