Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would immediately declare a national energy emergency, promising to fill up strategic reserves and export American energy all over the world. "We will be a rich nation again,

Republican Representative Chuck Fleischmann of Tennessee discussed the first-day actions taken by President Donald Trump on energy policy (Source: Bloomberg)

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act