Executive Order 14270: Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting To Unleash American Energy

What the order contains

Section headings exactly as they appear in the official text.

• Sec. 1. Purpose
• Sec. 2. Definitions
• Sec. 3. Covered Agencies and Regulations
• Sec. 4. Zero-Based Regulating
• Sec. 5. Implementation
• Sec. 6. Severability
• Sec. 7. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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In our country, laws are supposed to provide the certainty and order necessary to foster liberty and innovation. Instead, our vast regulatory structure often serves to constrict ordered liberty, not promote it. The United States Code itself is more than 60,000 pages. But unelected agency officials write most of the complex, legally binding rules on top of that, often stretching these statutory provisions beyond what the Congress enacted. In particular, the previous administration added more pages to the Federal Register than any other in history, with the result that the Code of Federal Regulations now approaches a staggering 200,000 pages. These regulations linger in such volume that serious reexamination seldom occurs. This regime of governance-by-regulator has imposed particularly severe costs on energy production, where innovation is critical. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 14158, January 20, 2025; EO 14192, January 31, 2025