Trump Declared A "National Energy Emergency." Now What?
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
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This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, climate correspondent Jeff Brady, and business correspondent Camila Domonoske.
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump is back in Washington, pursuing major policy changes on his own terms. |
| 0:06.4 | We know from the past that means challenging precedent, busting norms, and pushing against the status quo. |
| 0:12.1 | NPR is covering it all with Trump's terms, a podcast where we curate stories about the 47th president with the focus on how he is upending the way Washington works. |
| 0:21.5 | Listen to Trump's terms from NPR. |
| 0:24.2 | Hi, this is Dugan in Tallahassee, Florida. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm currently admiring the beautiful snowman I just built outside of my home. |
| 0:32.6 | This podcast was recorded at 107 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, January 23rd, 2025. Things may have changed by the time |
| 0:40.7 | you hear this, but I'll still be enjoying the beautiful Florida snow. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:49.5 | That's so wild, but at least if it's cold, you can build a snowman. It's fun. |
| 1:12.2 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. Today on the show, we look at President Trump's executive actions related to climate and energy. And to talk about it, I'm joined by two terrific colleagues, NPR climate correspondent Jeff Brady and NPR's Kamila Dominozki, |
| 1:16.7 | who covers energy and the automotive industry. Thanks to you both for being here. |
| 1:17.6 | Hey, Sarah. |
| 1:23.5 | Happy to be here. So in his inaugural speech earlier this week, President Trump said he wanted to ramp up domestic energy production. That is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. |
| 1:32.0 | We will drill baby drill. |
| 1:37.1 | All right, Camila, we've heard drill baby drill before, but national energy emergency. |
| 1:42.4 | What exactly does Trump mean when he says that? Well, what he did was he |
| 1:46.5 | formally declared an emergency and claimed basically extra powers for his office as a result. And exactly |
| 1:56.6 | how that plays out, we're going to have to watch and see what he does with it. But, you know, |
| 2:00.9 | one thing that was really interesting about this declaration is no president has claimed these |
| 2:06.7 | specific emergency powers as an energy emergency like this ever before. But the country did |
| 2:13.1 | have an energy crisis in the 70s where there were shortages of energy, right? People were waiting in lines |
| 2:19.1 | for gasoline. There wasn't enough natural gas. And that is absolutely not the case today, right? |
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