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The Center for Western Priorities today released a report assessing the impacts of the Trump administration’s four-year efforts to enact a drill-everywhere “Energy Dominance” agenda on our nation’s public lands, slashing public health and environmental safeguards to benefit the oil and gas industry.
“The dismal legacy of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ agenda” shows how the Trump administration magnified pre-existing problems in the oil and gas system, increasing waste of public resources and the risk of orphaned wells, benefitting companies instead of taxpayers, devastating sensitive lands, and marginalizing the public.
The author of the report, CWP Policy Director Jesse Prentice-Dunn, noted that energy dominance “turned out to be exactly what you would expect from a former oil lobbyist. Interior Secretary [David] Bernhardt exploited flaws within the public land oil and gas system to new extremes, all for the benefit of his former clients. His actions and the failure of energy dominance over the past four years highlight the desperate need for reform in our oil and gas leasing system.”
The report provides a road map for the Biden administration and Congress to fix the broken system, modernizing the U.S. government's approach to energy development on public lands to prioritize renewable energy, conserve natural heritage for future generations, and make public lands part of the climate solution.
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He was born in 1986. That’s pretty wild to think about. I think I was in junior high. I know it was the year before (Guns N’ Roses’) Appetite for Destruction came out.”
