National Energy Awareness Month, 2018

Proclamation 9794 of September 28, 2018

National Energy Awareness Month, 2018

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

During National Energy Awareness Month, we recognize
the remarkable role American energy plays in producing
more abundant, affordable, and reliable power for our
Nation and the world. My Administration is reducing
regulatory burdens on the energy sector, developing
innovative energy technologies, and building new
energy-related infrastructure. Our agenda is fueling
tremendous economic growth and forging a more secure
future for our country and our allies.

The American energy renaissance is pressing forward
with stunning speed. The United States is becoming both
energy independent and energy dominant because of the
entrepreneurial spirit of the American people and the
application of innovative technologies to energy
production, transmission, distribution, and use.
Recently, United States crude oil production rose to
roughly 11 million barrels a day, making our Nation the
largest global producer. Additionally, the United
States is the world's largest producer of natural gas,
and, in 2017, our coal exports rose by roughly 60
percent over the previous year. American energy
dominance means the end of our crippling dependence on
foreign energy, and that our industries have access to
reliable, affordable, and diverse energy supplies that
enable them to compete in the global marketplace.
Increasing energy security is also ushering in a new
era of American leadership around the world as we
export more of our energy bounty to friends and allies
abroad, freeing them from hostile dependence.

Our Nation's increasingly innovative energy industry is
proving that we can be responsible stewards of the
environment while developing energy resources to grow
the economy, lower costs, ignite job creation, and
drive up incomes for American workers. From 2005 to
2017, the United States led the world in cutting
energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, reducing them
by about 860 million metric tons. Between 1970 and
2017, combined emissions from the six common pollutants
dropped by 73 percent, all while our economy continued
to grow. We are leading the world in the development of
the next generation of energy technologies that will
convert our abundant and diverse domestic energy
resources, including coal, natural gas, nuclear, and
renewables, into the useful energy services that power
our economy. America's innovative minds and industrial
might, not the mandates of international agreements,
have made our Nation the world leader in producing
energy more abundantly while simultaneously reducing
emissions.

America's future has never been brighter, and American
energy is leading the way in providing jobs,
opportunity, and security for our Nation. This month,
we recommit to strengthening our energy security and to
responsibly using our energy resources so that we can
continue on our path towards energy independence and
dominance.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim October 2018 as
National Energy Awareness Month.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
two thousand eighteen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
third.