April 28, 2025--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--April has been a particularly busy month for the White House. Tariffs were announced April 2, modified several times, and then suspended (except for China) April 9, which continue to reverberate through global stock and bond markets. President Donald Trump also issued several far-reaching executive actions on energy on April 8 and 9. One order directed agency heads to repeal "unlawful regulations." A second sought to reverse state actions that impede his "energy dominance" agenda. A third sought to revive coal mining and the use of coal in electric generation. For more on the coal executive order, see April 9, 2025, article - Trump Executive Order Seeks to Reverse Decline of Coal. But an executive order issued April 9, on "zero-based regulatory budgeting," has drawn particular attention from a wide range of interested parties, including energy and environmental groups, law firms and free-market advocates. Seeking to "unleash American energy," that order instructed 10 federal agencies to "incorporate a sunset provision into their regulations governing energy production to the extent permitted by law, thus compelling those agencies to reexamine their regulations periodically to ensure that those rules serve the public good."
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