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Executive Order 13783

Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth

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In simple terms

This executive order directs federal agencies to review and roll back regulations that burden domestic energy production, particularly for coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy. It revokes several Obama-era climate change policies, disbands the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, and mandates specific reviews of EPA rules including the Clean Power Plan and various oil and gas regulations.

Federal Register Open PDF 82 FR 16093

Record & deadlines

  1. Signed

    Signed by the President

  2. FR published

    Published in the Federal Register · 82 FR 16093

    Federal Register PDF

  3. Final reports due (extendable by OMB Director)

  4. Agency heads submit draft final reports on energy-burdening regulations

  5. Agency heads submit review plans to OMB Director

Key directives

  • Agency heads review all regulations burdening domestic energy resources
  • Submit review plans to OMB within 45 days
  • Submit draft final reports within 120 days
  • Finalize reports within 180 days
  • Revoke EO 13653 and three climate-related presidential memoranda
  • Rescind President's Climate Action Plan and methane strategy reports
  • Rescind CEQ greenhouse gas emissions guidance
  • Review and potentially rescind Clean Power Plan and related EPA rules
  • Disband Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Direct agencies to use OMB Circular A-4 for greenhouse gas valuation
  • Lift federal land coal leasing moratorium
  • Review and potentially rescind oil and gas sector emission standards and fracking rules

Who is ordered

Prior policyRollback

  • revokeExecutive Order 13653 (Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change)
  • revokePresidential Memorandum of June 25, 2013 (Power Sector Carbon Pollution Standards)
  • revokePresidential Memorandum of November 3, 2015 (Mitigating Impacts on Natural Resources from Development and Encouraging Related Private Investment)
  • revokePresidential Memorandum of September 21, 2016 (Climate Change and National Security)
  • rescindThe President's Climate Action Plan (June 2013)
  • rescindClimate Action Plan Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions (March 2014)
  • rescindCEQ Final Guidance for Federal Departments and Agencies on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change in National Environmental Policy Act Reviews
  • otherTechnical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 12866 (February 2010)
  • otherTechnical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (May 2013)
  • otherTechnical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (November 2013)
  • otherTechnical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (July 2015)
  • otherAddendum to the Technical Support Document for Social Cost of Carbon: Application of the Methodology to Estimate the Social Cost of Methane and the Social Cost of Nitrous Oxide (August 2016)
  • otherTechnical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (August 2016)
  • otherSecretary's Order 3338 dated January 15, 2016 (Discretionary Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) to Modernize the Federal Coal Program)
  • otherClean Power Plan (Carbon Pollution Emission Guidelines for Existing Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units), 80 Fed. Reg. 64661 (October 23, 2015)
  • otherStandards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from New, Modified, and Reconstructed Stationary Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units, 80 Fed. Reg. 64509 (October 23, 2015)
  • otherFederal Plan Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Electric Utility Generating Units Constructed on or Before January 8, 2014; Model Trading Rules; Amendments to Framework Regulations; Proposed Rule, 80 Fed. Reg. 64966 (October 23, 2015)
  • otherLegal Memorandum Accompanying Clean Power Plan for Certain Issues
  • otherOil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources, 81 Fed. Reg. 35824 (June 3, 2016)
  • otherOil and Gas; Hydraulic Fracturing on Federal and Indian Lands, 80 Fed. Reg. 16128 (March 26, 2015)

Related orders

What to expect

Immediate

  • Disbanding of IWG on Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Withdrawal of IWG technical documents
  • Revocation of Obama climate executive actions and memoranda
  • Rescission of CEQ climate guidance
  • Interior Secretary to lift federal coal leasing moratorium
  • EPA Administrator to begin Clean Power Plan review
  • All agencies to begin review of energy-burdening regulations

Near term (90d)

  • Agency heads submit review plans to OMB Director (45 days)
  • Agency heads submit draft final reports on energy-burdening regulations (120 days)

Long term

  • Final reports on energy regulations due (180 days, extendable)
  • Potential suspension, revision, or rescission of numerous environmental and climate regulations
  • Possible restructuring of federal energy and environmental regulatory framework

Risks & tensions

  • Legal challenges likely to rescission of finalized rules; courts may reject 'as soon as practicable' timeline as arbitrary
  • Conflict between directive to promote 'clean air and clean water' and simultaneous deregulation of emission standards
  • Withdrawal of social cost of carbon metrics may weaken legal rationale for climate regulations
  • Tension with states that have adopted complementary climate policies
  • International climate commitments (Paris Agreement) potentially undermined, though not explicitly mentioned
  • Vague 'burden' standard leaves significant discretion to agencies and OMB Director
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