‘The climate litigation racket is about control, not conservation — and President Trump just called their bluff,’ says American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac
President Donald Trump’s recent executive order blitz to “unleash” American energy by cutting red tape surrounding the coal industry also launched a “counterstrike” on left-wing legal efforts to derail energy growth within the U.S., experts told Fox Digital.
“Democrats have long used and abused federal power to impose leftist policies on the states and the American people. It is refreshing to see a president use the federal power to promote economic freedom and the strength of the American economy, instead,” said James Taylor, president of The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank critical of restrictive climate policies.
Trump signed four executive orders (EOs) on Tuesday, while surrounded by U.S. coal miners, that aim to revitalize the coal industry, including an EO that directs the Department of Justice to identify and end “unconstitutional” state policies targeting the coal industry.
“I’m instructing the Department of Justice to identify and fight every single unconstitutional state or local regulation that’s putting our coal miners out of business. And we are withdrawing all of those objections from our government today. It’s all being withdrawn,” Trump said on Tuesday during the signing event.
The executive order, Protecting American Energy from State Overreach, outlined that Attorney General Pam Bondi is charged, alongside “appropriate executive departments and agencies,” with identifying state laws and policies that are “burdening the identification, development, siting, production, or use of domestic energy resources” and ending them.
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“States have also sued energy companies for supposed ‘climate change’ harm under nuisance or other tort regimes that could result in crippling damages,” Trump’s April 8 EO reads.
“These State laws and policies weaken our national security and devastate Americans by driving up energy costs for families coast-to-coast, despite some of these families not living or voting in States with these crippling policies,” the EO continues. “These laws and policies also undermine Federalism by projecting the regulatory preferences of a few States into all State.”
