February 16, 2025 - President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that formally established an energy council that he previously said would aim to achieve “ENERGY DOMINANCE.”

Under the order, the council will come up with a “National Energy Dominance Strategy” which will include “long-range goals” to help the nation produce more energy.

The council is also supposed to, within 100 days, advise the president on how to raise awareness on energy issues, on actions that can be taken to prioritize energy production, and ways to attract private sector investment.

However, in announcing the plans for the council last year, Trump said that it would “oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation.”

The council’s chair will be Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and its vice chair will be Energy Secretary Chris Wright. 

The order also gives Burgum a standing spot on the National Security Council.

Burgum described the council as a departure from former President Biden’s policies, which he said were in opposition to unleashing energy. 

“Now we need to turn that around 180 degrees and unleash that potential. We’ve got to unleash it from the Gulf of America all the way up to Alaska,” he said. 

Under Biden, oil production reached new highs. However, the Biden administration also took steps to restrict oil and gas drilling on public lands and in public waters.