Within hours of taking office, President Trump declared a national energy emergency as part of his plan to push for more oil and gas drilling and to heavily boost fossil fuels.

But that's not all. The president also started a process to reverse much of what former President Biden did on green energy, big changes that could ease or end new regulations on greenhouse gases

and cut development of electric vehicles. And as he did during his first term, President Trump

said the U.S. will pull out of the International Paris Climate Treaty. For more, we turn now to

Scott Waldman, a White House reporter for Politico's E&E News. Thanks for being with us.

So, Scott, the U.S. is right now producing more oil and natural gas than any other country

in the world at any point in history. So what does declaring a national emergency, a national energy

emergency, actually do? What does it achieve?

Well, Trump said that it was necessary because he wanted to ensure the, basically,

the security of the electrical grid, and as well as the nation's security, he claims that the grid is potentially unreliable and has been failing at some points and that a big boost of energy is needed to fix that.

What the actual order will do in terms of what powers it will give him, I mean, they're very limited.

It's not going to give him a lot of additional powers to boost energy in this country.

Obviously, that's going to be based on the market and the willingness of drillers, you know,

to do fracking and throughout the country.

And that's not going to be really affected by this.

I think the way that the energy emergency is written is that it's supposed to

alleviate some pressures that states and other entities have placed on like pipelines and other

energy infrastructure in particular. But just sort of declaring this with a stroke of a pen

does not mean that you can supersede state and local laws.

I mean, the federal government doesn't have that power. It can, of course, control what happens

on federal land, but, you know, a lot of this infrastructure is cited on private property,

on state property throughout the country. So it's not as simple as just declaring that, you know,

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