Executive Order 14213 establishes the National Energy Dominance Council within the Executive Office of the President, marking a significant policy shift toward prioritizing expanded energy production across all sectors. The order declares that "it shall be the policy of my Administration to make America energy dominant" and frames this approach as essential to economic prosperity, national security, and global leadership. The order characterizes America as "blessed with an abundance of natural resources" and positions increased energy production as a solution to inflation, unemployment, manufacturing decline, and international conflicts. It explicitly encompasses a wide range of energy sources including fossil fuels, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal, hydroelectric power, and critical minerals.
The Council will be chaired by the Secretary of the Interior with the Secretary of Energy serving as Vice Chair, alongside sixteen other high-ranking administration officials including cabinet secretaries and presidential advisors. Within 100 days, the Council must develop a National Energy Dominance Strategy focused on increasing energy production through regulatory streamlining and private sector investment. The order outlines six specific functions for the Council, including advising the President on exercising authority to increase energy production, improving permitting processes, enhancing private sector investments, focusing on innovation, and eliminating "longstanding, but unnecessary, regulation." The Council must also recommend specific actions agencies can take under existing authorities, including rapidly increasing electricity capacity, expediting approvals for energy infrastructure, approving natural gas pipelines to underserved regions, reopening closed power plants, and deploying Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
Implementation of the order places significant authority in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, who is elevated to a standing member of the National Security Council. The Council is directed to consult with state, local, and tribal governments as well as private sector entities to solicit feedback on expanding energy production. All federal agencies are required to cooperate with the Council and provide information and assistance as requested by the Chair. The order frames energy production as a matter of national security and economic necessity, suggesting a whole-of-government approach to removing barriers to energy development. While the order states it will be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to available appropriations, it establishes a governance structure explicitly focused on identifying and ending "practices that raise the cost of energy" across federal agencies.