A small team of energy industry alumni and political insiders is working inside the White House to coordinate President Donald Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda across the government.
Eight months after the official launch of Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council, the White House has installed a cadre of staffers tasked with advancing the president’s goals of boosting domestic energy production and slashing regulations.
Trump “wanted a group at the White House that could cut through the bureaucracy and get projects done,” the council’s executive director Jarrod Agen said in a September interview with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Trump, Agen said, envisioned a group that could work across agencies including the departments of Energy and Interior, with EPA, the State Department and “help industry and help our allies kind of streamline this whole process.”
