President-elect Donald Trump said recently that he plans to declare a “national energy emergency” on his first day in office as part of a series of energy announcements, which is expected to look very different from the one Jimmy Carter declared in 1977.
Bracewell’s Scott Segal told E&E News that the Carter administration “tried to strike a balance between using emergency powers to address immediate crises and maintaining long-term environmental and regulatory standards.”
Trump may use emergency authority more narrowly, focused on “just increasing fossil fuel production,” Segal added.
