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Former Trump Cabinet members launch group to promote president’s energy agenda

Two former Trump administration Cabinet secretaries are launching a nationwide coalition to back the president’s ‘energy dominance’ agenda, which aims to boost oil and gas production and scale back climate change policies.

Former U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette and former U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt are launching the Restoring Energy Dominance Coalition on Wednesday, which will rally conservatives behind President Donald Trump’s broad energy approach, a central theme of his 2024 campaign.

According to the nonprofit’s website, the organization is made up of ‘a group of concerned citizens and policy experts who understand that American energy production — of all kinds — is essential for unleashing domestic energy dominance.’

Brouillette said the coalition will ensure Trump garners the support he needs for his all-of-the-above energy agenda, which is ‘essential to lowering costs, creating good-paying jobs, and bolstering America’s national security.’ 

All of the above energy involves a mix of energy sources, like fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable energy, to promote energy independence.

‘The first step to improving our economy and lowering the cost of living for American families is to restore our energy dominance,’ Bernhadt said in a statement. ‘President Trump is spot on about needing all forms of energy to meet our current challenges and America’s new golden age will only be possible if we make the president’s energy platform from his 2024 campaign a reality.’

Following Trump’s campaign promise to ‘drill, baby drill,’ Trump issued an executive order on Inauguration Day declaring a national energy emergency, invoking the National Emergencies Act, to bolster domestic energy production and reduce reliance on foreign energy sources. The Trump White House argues it will lower energy costs. 

The order directs federal agencies to ‘expedite the leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources,’ including on federal lands.

‘The policies of the previous administration have driven our Nation into a national emergency, where a precariously inadequate and intermittent energy supply, and an increasingly unreliable grid, require swift and decisive action,’ the executive order reads. ‘Without immediate remedy, this situation will dramatically deteriorate in the near future due to a high demand for energy and natural resources to power the next generation of technology.’

Trump also issued a sweeping executive order rolling back environmental regulations – which sought to reduce emissions 61-66% by 2035 – that the Biden administration created in December. The order reverses several climate-focused policies and prioritizes fossil fuel expansion, mineral extraction and deregulation.

The directive calls for increased oil, gas and coal production on federal lands and waters, while revoking multiple executive orders that supported renewable energy initiatives. It also eliminates the federal electric vehicle (EV) mandate, removes subsidies favoring EVs, and prevents states from imposing stricter emissions standards.

Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.  

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS

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