[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 6, 2020)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 62929-62930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22195]


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                Proclamation 10089 of September 30, 2020

                
National Energy Awareness Month, 2020

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                From coast to coast, our country is blessed with an 
                abundance of natural resources that help power our 
                homes, light our cities, and provide us transport to 
                school and work. However, for too long, we failed to 
                reap their full benefits, nor did we properly steward 
                these God-given gifts. My Administration reversed that 
                trend, and today, I am proud to proclaim that the 
                United States is finally energy independent. During 
                National Energy Awareness Month, we recognize the newly 
                restored, preeminent importance of our Nation's energy 
                industry to the comfort of our daily lives and to our 
                national security.

                Since the beginning of my Administration, I have taken 
                action to reduce the regulatory burden on the American 
                energy sector. The last administration had stifled this 
                industry with one costly job-killing regulation after 
                another. For decades, special interest groups, 
                bureaucrats, and radical environmental activists 
                stymied the maintenance, repair, growth, and expansion 
                of our Nation's energy infrastructure, preventing us 
                from achieving energy independence. My Administration 
                has ended all that and is promoting stronger production 
                of crude oil and other liquids and empowering the 
                private sector to explore and drill for oil and gas. We 
                are also eliminating regulatory obstacles to building 
                the major energy infrastructure needed to transport our 
                Nation's energy from the source of production to end 
                users and exporters. We have issued timely approvals 
                for the Keystone XL, Dakota Access and Mountain Valley 
                Pipelines, and addressed the obstacles to exporting 
                coal through West Coast ports. As a result of these 
                policies, our country is a net energy exporter for the 
                first time since 1952 and is now the number one 
                producer of oil and natural gas in the world.

                Under my Administration, we are no longer beholden to 
                foreign powers or domestic radicals. We are powering 
                our Nation on our own terms.

                My Administration's commitment to promoting robust 
                energy development has proven that energy production 
                can go hand in hand with responsible stewardship of our 
                natural environment. America's energy independence is 
                critical to environmental stewardship. While boosting 
                energy production, the United States still continues to 
                be a world leader in clean air, including in the 
                reduction of energy-related CO2 emissions. 
                Emissions of common air pollutants have dropped by 77 
                percent over the last 50 years, including a 7 percent 
                reduction under my Administration.

                By empowering our domestic energy industry and its 
                workers, my Administration has made American 
                innovation--rather than foreign influence--the 
                cornerstone of our clean energy policy. Due to these 
                efforts, we remain the world's top producer of nuclear 
                power and recently became the second largest generator 
                of solar power. Allowing American companies to chart 
                their own paths to dependable renewable energy sources, 
                rather than forcing them to adhere to top-down 
                government programs, has enabled us to lead the world 
                in emissions reductions.

                To continue our progress, I proudly signed the Great 
                American Outdoors Act, which will direct royalties from 
                energy production on Federal lands and waters toward 
                conserving and repairing our national parks, forests,

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                refuges, public lands, and tribal schools. As a result, 
                the energy industry will play a crucial role in our 
                sustainability and conservation efforts going forward.

                This month, we recommit to supporting our Nation's 
                workers who produce, transport, and refine our energy. 
                We recognize the vital role they play in creating 
                opportunities, developing technologies, and advancing 
                our country toward an even more prosperous future. My 
                Administration will always support these hardworking 
                men and women, and together, we will sustain our energy 
                dominance and independence for years to come.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim October 2020 as 
                National Energy Awareness Month.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirtieth day of September, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand twenty, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and forty-fifth.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

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