This order invokes the National Emergencies Act to remove supposed legal and regulatory barriers to the expansion of domestic energy production. Declaration of a national emergency for energy is unprecedented. Emergency authorities can include the use of Federal eminent domain to seize private property and the Defense Production Act to direct private industry responses, and can suspend protections for clean water, endangered species and other environmental regulations to expedite permitting. The order identifies "dangerous State and local policies" in the Northeast and West Coast as harmful to the entire country. The national emergency declaration could be used to expand domestic production of fossil fuels including coal and make improvements to the electric grid.