Two years ago, then-candidate Donald Trump laid out an “America First” energy plan, stating that under his presidency, “American energy dominance will be declared a strategic, economic and foreign policy goal of the United States. It’s about time.”
Making good on that promise two months into his presidency, President Trump began to rollback burdensome regulations on domestic energy production. He then moved on, approving the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines and, most recently, releasing a new draft five-year offshore oil and natural gas leasing plan that could greatly expand the federal areas where drilling is allowed.
