President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze looks set to capture several energy and environmental rules from the prior administration.
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order telling agencies to block regulations going forward. Past presidents have done the same, but the order serves as Trump’s first shot in his coming war against federal rules, which he says strangle business and energy production.
“Regulatory freezes are standard practice for incoming administrations,” Stuart Shapiro, dean of the public policy school at Rutgers University, told POLITICO’s E&E News. “They want to pause any actions not completed by the previous administrations so they can decide whether they want to complete them.”
