The Energy Information Administration has long provided reliable data on everything from oil and gas to alternative energy. Now one of its signature reports has been slashed and a second one canceled entirely amid sweeping job reductions and turmoil.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data

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  1. Hi r/energy,

    Here’s a quick excerpt from our latest:

    >For decades, the Energy Information Administration, an independent agency housed inside the Department of Energy, has provided crucial reports on everything from oil and gas to the future of alternative energy. Relied on by oil company CEOs and government policymakers alike, the EIA’s data has been called the “gold standard” by Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global and an éminence grise in the world of oil. No less a source than Project 2025 described the EIA as historically providing “independent and impartial analysis.”

    >Last month, the EIA released its signature report: the Annual Energy Outlook for the United States. Largely based on data gathered during the administration of Joe Biden, the report projected rapid growth in alternative energy and declines in American reliance on coal, oil and natural gas. Agency officials feared that the findings would rankle the “Drill, Baby, Drill” proponents in the Trump administration, according to multiple EIA sources. So instead of promoting the report’s publication with an hourlong webcast and PowerPoint presentation spotlighting key findings, as it has in recent years, the agency released it without any of that. And at a late stage, the EIA deleted the analytical narrative — then 53 pages in draft form — that is [typically](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/AEO2023_Narrative.pdf) the centerpiece of the report. Instead the agency posted links to hundreds of data-filled tables and charts and a [seven-page explanation](https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/2025/AEO2025-narrative.pdf) of its methods.

    You can read the full story here: [https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data](https://www.propublica.org/article/the-latest-trump-and-doge-casualty-energy-data)

    Thanks for your time.

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