Mr. Burgum will be in charge of nearly 500 million acres of public land, 1.7 billion acres of offshore waters, and more than 70,000 employees tasked with protecting wildlife and managing national parks and tribal lands.
The order is the latest Trump administration effort against Biden-era initiatives that intended to promote electric vehicles and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation secretary Sean Duffy’s order targets fuel economy standards established by the Biden administration, which have been criticized for pushing automakers toward electric vehicles at the expense of internal combustion engine models.
For years, the energy industry has sought to overturn a key rule that empowers the federal government to regulate emissions from sources like power plants and oil wells.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shifted the hands of the symbolic clock to 89 seconds to midnight, citing the threat of climate change, nuclear war and the misuse of artificial intelligence.
Juan Manuel Santos, left, the former president of Colombia, and Robert Socolow, a professor emeritus in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, revealed the location of the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock at a news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
After a flood destroyed their town, Kentucky residents faced the agonizing choice of whether to stay or to relocate to new communities built on former strip mines.
The oil company plans to build natural gas power plants that will be directly connected to data centers used by technology companies for artificial intelligence and other services.
“It’s a chance for us to help meet the moment and address this growing need for reliable and affordable power,” Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive, said in an interview.
The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday.
Some $35 billion is aimed at building small solar sites in rural areas and other improvements. The World Bank chief called the project “foundational to everything.”
Oil and gas executives welcomed President Trump’s early moves on energy policy, but many said they did not plan to increase production unless prices rose significantly.
An oil platform on the Gulf of Mexico. Just how successful President Trump will be at bending energy markets toward fossil fuels will reveal itself over months and years.
In the case of some reassignments at the Justice Department, career officials find it hard to discern a reason, other than removing people whose legal views carry great weight in the building.
States are using higher registration fees for electric cars to make up for declining fuel taxes, but some are punitive, environmentalists say. A federal tax could be coming.
The president, who has assailed California’s leaders over wildfires, issued the directive in an executive order that was dated Friday but released on Sunday.
Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.
Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s nominee for E.P.A. chief, hasn’t had his confirmation vote scheduled yet, but he already has marshaled a squad of more than a dozen deputies and senior advisers.
After a tour of areas damaged by the California wildfires, the president sparred with local leaders and blamed them for a wide variety of issues affecting the disaster response.
On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times, explains what this decision means for the rest of the world.
Gov. Gavin Newsom faces what may be his greatest political test and leadership challenge. He planned to greet President Trump upon his arrival in Southern California on Friday.
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