Declaring an “energy emergency” was one of President Trump’s first official acts as president. On Jan. 20, the White House issued orders claiming that the country has “insufficient energy production, transportation, refining, and generation.” Trump signed another executive order saying that it is “in the national interest to unleash America’s affordable and reliable energy.”
The first order calls for the heads of federal agencies to use “any lawful emergency authorities available to them” to “facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on federal lands.”
In reality, the U.S. does not have an energy emergency, according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
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As of June 2025, the U.S. was producing 13.6 million barrels of oil per day, according to the latest EIA data available. That is more than any month in over a century and continues a trend of rising oil production that began in 2010. Following a brief dip in 2020 caused by the global pandemic, the U.S. resumed producing more oil than any country in the world, including record production on federal lands.
Natural gas production also reached a record high. American companies are extracting more than enough natural gas for domestic consumption – and exporting the rest overseas as liquefied natural gas (LNG). In December, before Trump took office, U.S. natural gas production in the Lower 48 reached a record high of 118.5 billion cubic feet per day, surpassing the previous record of 117.8 billion cubic feet per day in February 2024. This had decreased slightly to 107.4 billion cubic feet per day as of June 2025 – a figure still higher than any other natural gas production for the month of June going back to 1973, according to the EIA.
Solar and wind energy production has also continued to steadily rise, reaching record highs each year. In fact, the only types of energy to see production decline in the U.S. over the past 20 years are coal, which has increasingly been replaced by natural gas, and hydroelectric, whose production has decreased slightly since the early 2000s.
The U.S. electric grid also “has been and continues to be very reliable,” according to a January 2024 assessment by the U.S. Department of Energy. More than 90 percent of power interruptions are “largely due to falling trees, fires, wildlife, and traffic accidents” that caused downed wires or other damage.
The data is clear: there is no “energy emergency”. President Trump’s reliance on this fake emergency as justification for expediting approvals for fossil fuel projects is not supported by the facts.
