Trump’s Deregulatory Agenda Checks the Boxes for American Energy Dominance
President Trump’s deregulatory agenda just made a great stride. As E&E News reported, “President Donald Trump has laid out his wide-ranging regulatory plan to sweep away regulations and bolster American industry and fossil fuel energy.” The new Unified Agenda, released by the Office of Management and Budget, makes clear that deregulation is central to the mission.
OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta said the plan will “promote liberty, unleash American energy dominance, preserve products consumers love, and eradicate the ideology of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).”
That language matters because it recognizes what Power The Future has been saying for years: America’s energy crisis was not inevitable. It was manufactured by policy choices. The Biden administration layered rule after rule on the energy producers, power plants, manufacturers, appliances, and infrastructure Americans rely on every day. The result was higher costs, less reliability, and a grid increasingly strained by political mandates.
President Trump’s agenda checks a lot of the boxes in Power The Future’s energy roadmap.
It moves toward unleashing American energy production, targets the regulatory barriers that make it harder to build, operate, and expand reliable power generation, and rejects the forced electrification and appliance-control agenda that limits consumer choice. It also recognizes that American industry cannot compete, AI cannot lead, and families cannot afford their bills without abundant, affordable, dependable energy.
The contrast could not be clearer. The Biden-Harris administration used the regulatory state to manage decline while President Trump is using it to reverse decline.
For Americans, that means opportunity, relief, and the return of an energy policy built around abundance instead of scarcity.
July 7, 2026