Dept. of Energy

Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage programs.

Note :: The Trump administration canceled 24 grants aimed at carbon capture and industrial decarbonization; Dept. of Energy redirected carbon capture funds to revive coal plants.

Eliminate the Office of Grid Deployment.

Note :: The Energy Dept. broke up the Grid Deployment Office.

Eliminate the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.

Note :: The Energy Dept. broke up the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.

Eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy or reduce its funding.

Note :: The Energy Dept. "rebranded" it as the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation.

Expand energy exploration and extraction in Alaska, open Nat'l Petroleum Reserve to leasing and development.

Note :: Interior Dept. issued a final rule rescinding 2024 protections for the Nat'l Petroleum Reserve; reconciliation bill mandates at least five lease sales in the Western Arctic over the next 10 years.

Limit subsidized renewables.

Note :: Reconciliation bill phases out tax credits for wind and solar projects; Secretary Wright canceled $13 billion for green projects.

Eliminate the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management or redirect it to increasing fossil fuel use.

Focus energy policy on critical minerals.

Note :: Dept. of Energy is awarding $500 million in grants to seven companies building ‌domestic lithium, cobalt and other mineral and battery project.

Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act.

Note :: Reconciliation bill rescinds unobligated funds.

En cours

Eliminate the Clean Energy Corps (funded by the IIJA).

Note :: Trump signed an executive order indefinitely pausing the disbursement of funds.

Eliminate the Office of State and Community Energy Programs.

Note :: The Trump admin. has not spent billions of dollars in funding for Office of State and Community Energy Programs.

Ensure liquified natural gas export applications are "approved expeditiously," without consideration of climate change.

En cours

Repeal the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Note :: Trump signed an executive order indefinitely pausing the disbursement of funds.

Reverse Biden-era decisions to retire parts of nuclear arsenal, reject Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Note :: Trump ordered the Pentagon to be resume testing nuclear weapons.

Eliminate considerations of upstream and downstream greenhouse gas emissions.

Expand natural gas infrastructure.

Restart the Yucca Mountain licensing process (to dispose of nuclear waste).

Eliminate the DOE Loan Program.

Eliminate the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy agency.