Declaring a National Energy Emergency

Key claim: Executive Order 14156 of January 20, 2025, declares a national energy emergency under the National Emergencies Act based on inadequate U.S. energy and critical minerals identification, leasing, production, transportation, refining, and generation. It directs agency heads to identify and exercise lawful emergency authorities to facilitate domestic energy resources, including expedited Army Corps permitting and Endangered Species Act processes. Subsequent agency actions and a 2026 continuation notice implement and extend the declaration.

Abstract

Presidential Documents 8433 Federal Register Vol. 90, No. 18 Wednesday, January 29, 2025 Title 3— The President Executive Order 14156 of January 20, 2025 Declaring a National Energy Emergency By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (‘‘NEA’’), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. The energy and critical minerals (‘‘energy’’) identification, leasing, development, production, transportation, refining, and generation capacity of the United States are all far too inadequate to meet our Nation’s needs. We need a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy to drive our Nation’s manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, and defense industries, and to sustain the basics of modern life and military preparedness. Caused by the harmful and shortsighted policies of the previous administra- tion, our Nation’s inadequate energy supply and infrastructure causes and makes worse the high energy prices that devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed-incomes. This active threat to the American people from high energy prices is exacer- bated by our Nation’s diminished capacity to insulate itself from hostile foreign actors. Energy security is an increasingly crucial theater of global competition. In an effort to harm the American people, hostile state and non-state foreign actors have targeted our domestic energy infrastructure, weaponized our reliance on foreign energy, and abused their ability to cause dramatic swings within international commodity markets. An afford- able and reliable domestic supply of energy is a fundamental requirement for the national and economic security of any nation. The integrity and expansion of our Nation’s energy infrastructure—from coast to coast—is an immediate and pressing priority for the protection of the United States’ national and economic security. It is imperative that the Federal government puts the physical and economic wellbeing of the American people first. Moreover, the United States has the potential to use its unrealized energy resources domestically, and to sell to international allies and partners a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy. This would create jobs and economic prosperity for Americans forgotten in the present econ- omy, improve the United States’ trade balance, help our country com

Why this matters

Executive Order 14156 of January 20, 2025, declares a national energy emergency under the National Emergencies Act based on inadequate U.S. energy and critical minerals identification, leasing, production, transportation, refining, and generation. It directs agency heads to identify and exercise lawful emergency authorities to facilitate domestic energy resources, including expedited Army Corps permitting and Endangered Species Act processes. Subsequent agency actions and a 2026 continuation notice implement and extend the declaration.

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