Inside Energy (https://insideenergy.org/series/trump-american-energy/page/3/)
The Trump administration came into office promising to “unleash” American energy, to put coal miners back to work, to dismantle the regulatory “overreach” of federal government agencies. His policies will have a huge impact on energy production, distribution and consumption for the next four years, and we will be watching.
Freshman Congressman Ryan Zinke from Montana is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Interior Secretary. The Interior Department oversees one fifth of federal lands in this country, including national parks from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon. The nomination was met by cheers and boos.
The election of Donald Trump has raised questions about the future of federal funding for energy research and development. We dig into the numbers.
From board rooms to drilling rigs, much of the U.S. fossil fuel industry has been counting down the days until President Barack Obama turns over the keys of the White House. Donald Trump doesn’t officially take the wheel of the nation’s energy policy until January 20th, but Oklahoma’s oil and gas industry says its prospects have already improved under the President-elect.
Coal country is celebrating Donald Trump’s election victory. Support for Trump was strong from Appalachia to Wyoming, and people have high hopes he can reverse coal’s recent downturn. But can he?
Donald Trump promised sweeping reforms to the energy industry during the campaign. He promised to bring back coal jobs, boost domestic oil and gas production, while repealing climate change regulations and gutting the Environmental Protection Agency. Essentially his plan aims at reversing much of what the Obama administration delivered on energy and climate in the last eight years. Now that Trump is the president-elect, how much of that will he actually be able to do?
Fossil fuel companies have a history of backing Republican candidates. But this year’s unusual presidential campaign appears to be having a strange ripple effect on political giving — at least from the oil and gas industry.
Election day is creeping closer. And the next president could change the energy landscape of states that rely on coal, oil and gas. Inside Energy’s Amy Sisk looks at how the next president would affect energy-state North Dakota.
One thing we can say about this year’s presidential election, it’s not following the rules of the game. Take the oil and gas industry for example. Although Donald Trump is the keynote speaker at Pennsylvania’s annual Shale Insight conference this week, industry executives and employees have not been opening their wallets to the Republican nominee.
Donald Trump is wooing energy interests with support for oil and gas development, a rollback of federal regulations and a promise to bring back coal. His chief energy advisors are well-known in energy circles: North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer and Harold Hamm of Continental Resources.
