Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said President Donald Trump’s goal of energy dominance is moving federal policy in the opposite direction from that of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
Trump, who reached his 100th day in office on Tuesday, has been working to change energy policy in the United States. He jump-started efforts to expand drilling in Alaska and expedite natural gas exports that the Biden administration paused to study environmental effects.
“President Trump is avoiding the Biden blackouts and brownouts that were potentially put right on our doorstep because of the energy policies of the prior administration. He’s going 180 degrees in the other direction with energy dominance,” Burgum said on Fox News’s The Faulkner Focus.
According to Burgum, Iran, which “the Biden administration failed to sanction,” used its oil sales to fund some 24 terrorist groups. This resulted in the U.S. becoming involved in overseas conflicts.
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Burgum has been tasked with heading the new National Energy Dominance Council, which was announced long before Trump’s inauguration and is meant to focus on oil, natural gas, and coal. It’s on Burgum to help oversee these materials’ permitting, production, transportation, and regulation.
Despite Biden’s goal to “end fossil fuels,” his administration saw crude oil, gas, and coal production surpass pre-pandemic levels.