Executive Actions Tracker

This memorandum withdraws all areas of the Outer Continental Shelf from wind energy leasing effective January 21, 2025, until the memorandum is revoked, without affecting existing leases or leasing for other purposes such as oil, gas, and minerals. It directs the Secretary of the Interior and other agency heads to cease issuing new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore and offshore wind projects pending a comprehensive review of federal wind leasing and permitting practices led by the Secretary of the Interior. It also directs the Secretary of the Interior to place a temporary moratorium on activities and rights of Magic Valley Energy, LLC under the Lava Ridge Wind Project Record of Decision, and authorizes the Attorney General to seek stays of related pending litigation.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Environmental · ESG and Sustainability

This EO restores a category of federal workers known as "Schedule F" that existed in the prior Trump administration under EO 13957. Schedule F employees lack the same job protections typically enjoyed by career civil servants, including procedures and appeals rights for termination. The Director of OPM is directed to amend applicable regulations to enact the above change and issue guidance, within 30 days, about additional categories of positions for this determination.

This executive order directs a whole-of-government approach to place-based economic development in "covered communities", including economically distressed regions, Community Disaster Resiliency Zones, and certain rural and Tribal areas. The Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, must coordinate federal investments across twelve implementing agencies and, within 1 year, improve community engagement, develop an interagency technical assistance network, and identify overlapping program geographies. Implementing agencies are directed to include preferences for covered communities in funding opportunities, assist grant applicants in distressed regions, consider signing a memorandum of agreement within 1 year to share information across programs, and support long-term economic development in disaster-affected regions.

Clients in Energy and Infrastructure · Tribal and Native American Law

This EO partially revokes EO 13961 (Governance and Integration of Federal Mission Resilience), originally issued on December 7, 2020, by revoking Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 and renumbering Sections 2, 6, and 8 as Sections 1, 2, and 3. It also amends the renumbered sections to replace references to the Executive Committee established under the prior order with the Restricted Principals Committee described in the National Security Memorandum of January 19, 2025 (National Continuity Policy).