WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump wasted no time in kicking off his agenda, signing a blizzard of executive orders on Monday.

Ohio Republicans were particularly interested in several of those actions that relate to energy, which they said could pave the way to expand Ohio’s liquid natural gas (LNG) production.

Within hours of taking the oath of office, Trump again withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, an international pact to fight climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Trump had also removed the U.S. from the agreement in 2020, though the country rejoined the next year under President Joe Biden.

Trump and other Republicans have argued the agreement poses an unfair burden on the American economy.

“That’s something we shouldn’t have been in to begin with,” said Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio. “Here we are today, leading the world in natural gas production. We can now outproduce Saudi Arabia or Russia in any given day in oil production. You know, if you turn the American entrepreneur and innovator loose, these are the great things that happen.”

“There’s not a war for clean energy. There’s a war for energy, and China is waging it,” said Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio. “They’re launching a massive number of coal-fired power plants. They’re developing nuclear energy.”

Trump also declared a national energy emergency to speed up permitting for new projects.

“That’s important because we can’t wait six, seven, eight years for something to happen. Then at the end of that time frame, somebody else files another lawsuit and it stops everything from happening,” Latta said.

Another executive order ended a freeze on building new natural gas export terminals.

“Lifting that ban, that is going to promote so much more business, for America. America can dominate this portion of the market. And that makes an exciting time for us,” said Rep. Troy Balderson, R-Ohio.

It remains to be seen whether these measures will significantly affect U.S. fossil fuel production, already at record levels for both oil and LNG under Biden.

Republicans also reacted to Trump’s granting legal reprieve to almost everyone convicted or charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. capitol. The clemency includes rioters who assaulted police officers.

Notably, Vice President JD Vance said in an interview ten days ago, when he was still a U.S. Senator, that Jan. 6 defendants convicted of violent acts should not be pardoned. Some Ohio Republicans voiced similar sentiments.

“There’s a fair point there to say, ‘If you violently assaulted somebody, it shouldn’t be a pardon. It should be a commutation of your sentence.’ You’re still guilty of assaulting somebody,” Davidson said, adding that he thought the sentences of many Jan. 6 defendants were too punitive.

The more 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants granted legal reprieve include nearly 80 Ohioans.