When President Donald Trump took office, he promised to “ unleash American energy ” — and quickly left no doubt that he meant fossil fuel energy in particular .

In the months since, he has opened up vast stretches of public lands and U.S. oceans for drilling and reduced the royalty rates that companies must pay for extracting oil and gas in those areas. His administration has also proposed scrapping environmental rules requiring polluters to report their emissions to the EPA , easing regulations for oil and gas wastewater disposal , and rewriting rules to weaken risk management protocols at refineries . And by declaring a national energy emergency, Trump has cleared the way for faster permitting primarily for fossil fuel infrastructure, bringing down review timelines from mu

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