Agency: Commerce

Climate Deregulation Tracker

Agency: Commerce

2017-04-28 Trump Signs Executive Order to Expand Offshore Drilling Executive Order Commerce, DOI

President Trump signed an Executive Order on Implementing an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy which contains several directives aimed at expanding offshore drilling. Most notably, it revokes Obama-era decisions to withdraw certain areas of the OCS in Alaska and the Atlantic Cost from leasing and directs the Department of Interior to consider revising the lease schedules for those and other OCS areas to allow oil and gas production “to the maximum extent permitted by law.”