The Trump administration on Friday announced the formal creation of a national energy council, an advisory body meant to find ways to increase energy production in the United States and hasten infrastructure permitting.
The National Energy Dominance Council will be led by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and will include Energy Secretary Chris Wright as vice chair, according to an executive order the White House released Friday. It will be tasked with taking the ideas President Donald Trump laid out in his executive orders dealing with energy production and finding ways to make them reality.
“We’ve got to unleash [energy] from the Gulf of America all the way up to Alaska,” Burgum said of the new council.
The council will take the same “all-of-government” approach that the Biden administration made for its climate change policy and include secretaries for the State Department, the Defense Department, the Office of Management and Budget and other agencies not normally associated with energy policy. The main task of this new advisory council will be to report to Trump on ways the administration can increase oil, natural gas and other fossil fuel production.
