President-elect Donald Trump is putting his Interior Department nominee Doug Burgum at the head of a new National Energy Council that will lead a multi-agency effort to boost U.S. energy production and eliminate regulations, a core policy plank from his campaign. The new role, which will give the North Dakota governor a seat on the National Security Council, "will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE," Trump said in a statement, and enable the U.S. to supply its allies with energy. The position will oversee the "drill, baby, drill' effort and increase all types of energy, Trump said. That includes growing U.S. electricity supplies to cut consumer costs and meet the demands of the raft of new energy-hungry AI data centers. Read the latest
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