The National Energy Dominance Council is helping individual projects get built — but wind and solar energy need not apply.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Thursday that the council is prioritizing helping projects related to critical minerals, power supply, oil and gas development, and power and gas lines. That portfolio does not include renewable energy, which the Trump administration has targeted for funding cuts and permit repeals.
“If you have not talked to [the dominance council], you need to,” Burgum, the council chair, told potential developers during a speech Thursday at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Burgum and six staffers on the council spoke at the think tank’s event to mark the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump creating the council, an advisory body within the White House that aims to increase energy production and speed up permitting. The event came as the Trump administration champions a liquefied natural gas project in Alaska — including an 800-mile pipeline — and tries to destroy the offshore wind industry.
