JANUARY 22, 2025|
Photo – Governor Mark Gordon – Bigfoot99 file photo
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon is applauding this week’s first moves by the White House that promote a new direction in domestic energy policy.
President Donald Trump, on his first full day in office Monday, issued a flurry of orders to boost the nation’s oil and gas production while eliminating Joe Bidens leftist climate agenda.
In a statement on Tuesday, Governor Gordon said, “The energy-related executive orders signed by President Trump are a win for U.S. energy and Wyoming. After four years of attacks on Wyoming’s core energy industries, we now can look forward to an immediate change in approach.”
The governor added that he looks forward “to working with an Administration that recognizes fossil fuels as essential to our way of life.”
Among the President’s first steps after assuming office, Trump declared a national energy emergency, providing him with the authority to reduce environmental restrictions on energy infrastructure and projects and ease permitting for new transmission and pipeline infrastructure.
Trump immediately issued an order for the U.S. to resume processing export permit applications from new liquefied natural gas projects supplying Asia and Europe, effectively reversing a pause Biden put in place in early 2024 to study the environmental and economic effects of the booming exports.
Trump ordered the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate deal, an international agreement to fight climate change, repeating a move he made in his first term.
Trump suspended new federal offshore wind leasing pending an environmental and economic review, saying windmills are ugly, expensive and harm wildlife.
“We’re not going to do the wind thing,” President Trump said.
Trump took aim at electric vehicles, revoking a 2021 executive order signed by Biden that sought to ensure half of all new vehicles sold in the United States by 2030 were electric.
Trump said in an executive order he was halting distribution of unspent government funds for vehicle charging stations from a $5 billion fund, called for ending a waiver for states to adopt zero-emission vehicle rules by 2035 and said his administration would consider ending EV tax credits.
Trump signed an executive order repealing Biden’s efforts to block oil drilling in the Arctic and along large areas of the U.S. coasts, according to the White House.
Trump also repealed a 2023 action that barred oil drilling in some 16 million acres (6.5 million hectares) in the Arctic, the White House announced.
After Biden took office, the Democrats sold more than 180 million barrels of crude oil from the nation’s Strategic Oil reserve, a record amount that depleted the reserve to the lowest level in 40 years.
In Tuesday’s statement, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said that he looks forward “to working with an Administration that recognizes fossil fuels as essential to our way of life.”
