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* Letting markets decide what lands to drill
* Dismantling US EPA for over-regulating industry
* 'America first' approach to trade policy
Republican Donald Trump has won the US presidential election in a
surprise upset after polls had predicted a comfortable lead for his Democratic
opponent, Hillary Clinton, the Associated Press is projecting.
While Trump has given few concrete details about his energy plans, his
statements during the campaign indicate he would likely adopt policies that
attempt to expand fossil fuel production, ease regulations on industry and
roll back President Barack Obama's clean air policies.
Here is a snapshot of some of Trump's energy-related statements:
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Trump has said he supports all forms of energy and wants the market to
decide which ones succeed. He has promised to open all federal lands and
waters to fossil fuel production, in contrast to Clinton, who had called for
new, stricter limits on oil and gas production on public lands and indicated
she wanted US offshore production confined to only the Gulf of Mexico.
Analysts say it is impossible to determine just how much of an impact a
Trump administration may have on domestic supply because of a number of
shifting factors, particularly prices.
But Trump, widely seen as a far bigger supporter of the oil and natural
gas industry, will likely rebuff any environmentalist attempts to curb
domestic fossil fuel production and will likely give US producers access to
far more on and offshore plays than Clinton would have.
"I think it's like the production of anything, if you have access to more
of it, you're going to have more," North Dakota Representative Kevin Cramer, a
Republican and top Trump energy adviser, told S&P Global Platts. "In fact,
whether it correlates to more overall production or not, it certainly provides
a diversity of opportunities for
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