National Energy Dominance Council Act of 2025
This bill would create the National Energy Dominance Council, a new interagency body within the President’s Executive Office charged with shaping and accelerating U.S. energy production. The Council would be chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and would include a broad set of cabinet members and senior officials (including the Secretary of Energy as Vice Chair) plus other heads designated by the President. Its core duties are to advise the President on how to increase energy production, improve and streamline processes across the energy sector (permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, and export), and coordinate public-private energy initiatives. The bill requires the Council to develop a National Energy Dominance Strategy focused on reducing regulation, spurring private investment, and prioritizing innovation, while also producing a 100-day (and ongoing) assessment of key energy markets and recommended actions to expand energy production. A notable feature is the proposed expansion of the National Security Council’s representation to include the Secretary of the Interior, signaling a tighter link between energy policy and national security. The bill would require interagency cooperation, create staff support for the Council, and provide a mechanism for rapid advisory input to the President on concrete actions, such as expanding electric capacity, deploying small modular reactors, reopening closed power plants, and accelerating energy infrastructure approvals, including natural gas pipelines to underserved regions. It would amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and reference an Executive Order (EO 14213) describing the Council.
Key Points
- 1Establishment and leadership: Creates the National Energy Dominance Council within the Executive Office of the President, with the Secretary of the Interior as Chair and the Secretary of Energy as Vice Chair; membership includes multiple federal agencies and senior White House policy offices, plus the ability for the President to designate additional heads.
- 2Core duties and strategy: The Council must advise on how to produce more energy and how to improve and coordinate energy permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, and export, including critical minerals; it must develop and provide a National Energy Dominance Strategy to promote energy production through reducing red tape, eliminating unnecessary regulation, boosting private investment, and prioritizing innovation.
- 3100-day and ongoing market review: Within 100 days after enactment (and as appropriate thereafter), the Council must review critical energy markets, solicit input from state/local/Tribal governments and private sector stakeholders, and advise on actions agencies can take to prioritize energy production (e.g., increasing electricity capacity, enabling small modular reactors, reopening plants, and expediting energy infrastructure projects like pipelines).
- 4Incentives and cost considerations: The Council will advise on incentives to attract private investment in energy production and identify and address practices that raise energy costs; also to raise public awareness about energy reliability, jobs, technology gains, regulatory constraints, and national security concerns related to energy.
- 5Administration and interagency cooperation: The Council will have staff and authority to request information and cooperation from other agencies; its functions report to the White House Chief of Staff, ensuring high-level coordination.
- 6National security council representation: The bill amends the National Security Act to add the Secretary of the Interior to the National Security Council’s representation alongside the Secretary of Energy.
- 7Legal housekeeping: Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to add the new Sec. 1408 (National Energy Dominance Council); makes a conforming change to NSC representation.