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If they start doing things that are egregious and use the executive order as a rationale, we would be prepared to sue,
Hartl added
We anticipate that political appointees will work to implement Trump’s agenda through secretarial orders and specific agency actions, whether regulatory rollbacks, new lease sales, drilling permits, pipeline approvals, etc. That’s where the fight will prove most intensive,
Schlenker-Goodrich saidOnce you have that badge of approval from the National Security Council, you can flash it to every federal judge that tries to stand in the way, because courts consistently defer to national security claims,
said Tyson Slocum of the consumer advocacy group Public CitizenThe law doesn’t define what an emergency is, and so far no court has been willing to overturn a finding that there is an emergency,
said University of California, Berkeley Law School professor Dan FarberIt’s hard to challenge an executive order in general,
said Brett Hartl of the Center for Biological DiversityIt could expedite energy projects but also harm water standards, endangered species protections, fill in the blank,
said Emory University School of Law professor Mark Nevitt
These performative acts show the pervasive influence that the fossil fuel industry will have in the United States over the next four years,
former vice-president Al Gore noted
The decisions that U.S. companies make about how much to grow oil production are first and foremost going to be determined by market signals,
says Jason Bordoff, who runs the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
We didn't go back to horses, even though there was a strong horse lobby when cars came,
says Leah Seligmann, chief change catalyst and CEO at The B Team, a business group focused on climateWe’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, because they’re allowing vast numbers of people,
into the country, ... Trump said in response to questions from reporters, as he sat behind the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk on Monday
We will bring prices down, fill our strategic reserves up again, right to the top, and export American energy all over the world,
Trump saidI'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip off,
he saidHigh costs of energy are unnecessary. They are by design. It is a cause of policy,
the adviser saidEnergy prices permeate every single part of our economy,
a Trump adviser saidI can’t guarantee anything,
Trump told NBC NewsIt is crystal clear that his administration is all in to pad Big Oil Billionaire profits at the expense of our air, water, lands, climate, health, pocketbooks, and jobs."
But Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters said in a separate statement
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill,
Trump said during his inaugural address
But probably not growth at the rate that we've seen over the last number of years as particularly some of these new shale plays begin to mature,
Wirth saidWhat you end up with is that even if Trump were to expand his emergency powers in unprecedented ways, it is not clear that courts would step in to halt any of these resulting actions,
the analyst saidThe national energy emergency is crucial because we are in an AI race with China, and our ability to produce domestic American energy is so crucial such that we can generate the electricity and power that's needed to stay at the global forefront of technology,
a White House official told reporters earlier Monday