A trade association representing some of the biggest oil and gas drilling companies has ambitious aspirations — and in many cases, concrete plans — to dismantle Biden administration environmental regulations and overturn components of the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
Those plans — contained in a tranche of confidential documents obtained by watchdog group Fieldnotes and shared with POLITICO’s E&E News — include draft executive orders former President Donald Trump could sign soon after entering office, should he win another term this November, and a blueprint for advancing key priorities on Capitol Hill.
Those actions could include dismantling of President Joe Biden’s sweeping order on “Tackling the Climate Crisis At Home and Abroad” and passing three new ones: “Promoting Energy Security, Affordability, and Reliability”; “Promoting Natural Gas and LNG Exports”; and “Prioritizing Infrastructure and Energy Project Permitting.”
The text of those orders were not included among the private documents circulated earlier this year by leadership of the American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC) to executives of member companies, which include ConocoPhillips and Hess.
