Trump’s energy emergency is a gift to fossil fuel firms. It’s likely headed to court
President Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of a flurry of executive orders issued Monday. But the document is not an emergency for all forms of energy, it’s mostly supporting the production of domestic fossil fuels.
“We will drill, baby, drill,” Trump said in his inauguration speech and then later signed the emergency declaration and commented that it “means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem.” That is not accurate and many of the details for how this will be done are not included in the order.
