Biden’s Executive Order Rescinded Trump Order to Secure Electrical Grid from Foreign Adversaries
According to Power Mag, ” The White House’s action appears to affect a number of rules under review or recently finalized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including at least three rules governing coal combustion residuals, and general revisions to emissions monitoring and reporting requirements for fossil plants.
At the Department of Energy (DOE), the action pivotally halts rulemaking through which the agency would have limited procurement of bulk power system equipment sourced from adversary nations. Executive Order 13920 of May 1, 2020 (Securing the United States Bulk-Power System), is “effectively suspended for 90 days,” says one of the many executive orders issued on Wednesday. “The Secretary of Energy and the Director of [Office of Management and Budget] shall jointly consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued.”
During the former Trump Administration, then President Trump’s executive order was described by the Department of Energy as something that would “greatly diminish the ability of foreign adversaries to target our critical electric infrastructure.”