The Interior Department Friday urged the public to identify which regulations on federal lands should be targeted in the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to loosen government oversight of energy, climate and the environment.
The agency will publish its formal request Monday for public input on how to “deconstruct the regulatory burden that has been self-imposed on our Nation’s interests,” according to a notice published Friday in the Federal Register.
The appeal follows a mandate issued by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office for executive agencies to identify areas where they can deregulate.
Underscoring the deregulation effort was a separate order from the White House declaring an energy emergency in the nation. That declaration argues that an increase in the production of wind and solar energy, currently accounting for less than 20 percent of the nation’s power, is weakening the nation’s energy security.
