- by foxnews
- 15 Nov 2024
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to install an "energy czar" to scale back energy and climate regulations implemented under the Biden administration.
Other plans Trump and his transition team are reportedly discussing include installing an "energy czar" to help cut regulations on domestic energy production and potentially moving the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) headquarters outside of Washington, D.C.
"The American people re-elected President Trump by a resounding margin giving him a mandate to implement the promises he made on the campaign trail," Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital when asked to confirm the details about Trump's reported plans. "He will deliver."
"President-elect Trump will begin making decisions on who will serve in his second administration soon," Leavitt told the Times when it reached out to confirm details about the new post. "Those decisions will be announced when they are made."
Besides plans to install an "energy czar" and potentially move the EPA's headquarters out of Washington, the potential executive actions reportedly drafted by Trump's transition team would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, expand drilling and mining on federal lands, and would loosen regulations around fossil fuel pollution.
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