Energy, environment and natural resources

Executive Order 13990: Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Directed agencies to review Trump-era environmental actions, restored climate analytical policy, revoked the Keystone XL permit and reinstated Arctic and monument-related protections.

Status: Revoked.

Is Executive Order 13990 still in effect? No. Revoked January 20, 2025; many implementing actions separately reversed or retained.

A river, forest, wildlife and mountains surround a government building beneath a globe, wind turbine and chart.
Environmental review and climate science, illustrated symbolically; the chart is not measured data. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 13990 do?

Agencies were directed to review listed environmental actions; a working group was assigned interim social-cost estimates and federal officials permit and land tasks.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14154 expressly revoked this order. Official source 1 · Official source 2. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedJanuary 20, 2021
Lead officialsCEQ, EPA, Interior and all agencies
Express timing30- to 120-day reviews and ongoing rulemaking

Before and after

Before the order

The first Trump administration had changed numerous climate, energy, environmental-review and public-land policies.

After the order

Agencies reconsidered rules and permits and used updated climate analysis; many actions became separate rules or decisions, while EO 14148 revoked the umbrella order in 2025.

EO 14154 expressly revoked this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
AgenciesReview listed environmental actionsStaged deadlines
Interagency working groupUpdate social-cost estimates30 days / ongoing
State and InteriorImplement permit and land provisionsImmediate / ongoing

What happened next

EO 13990 signed.

EO 14148 revoked EO 13990.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14154 expressly revoked this order.