in effect
Proclamation 10986, signed October 17, 2025, is a presidential proclamation designating October 2025 as “National Energy Dominance Month.” It is a symbolic declaration with no binding legal force; it expresses the administration’s policy priorities around expanding domestic oil, gas, coal, and mineral production.
A proclamation of this type creates no new law, regulation, or enforceable obligation. It does not alter any existing statute, agency rule, or spending authority. The document references several prior actions — a declared National Energy Emergency, an executive order rolling back energy restrictions, creation of a National Energy Dominance Council, opening of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, and removal of certain regulations on coal plants — but those actions were taken separately and are not created or modified by this proclamation. The proclamation itself changes only the official designation of October 2025 on the federal calendar.
No individual, company, or agency acquires new rights or obligations directly from this proclamation. Energy industry stakeholders (oil, gas, coal, and mining companies) and federal agencies that manage energy policy may point to it as a statement of administrative priorities, but any concrete effects on those parties flow from the separate executive orders and regulatory actions referenced in the text, not from the proclamation itself.