The pause affects billions of dollars and is delaying home repairs, factory construction and other projects, many in states that voted Republican.

The former governor of North Dakota is promoting President Trump’s “energy dominance” agenda and wants more oil, gas and mining on public lands.

Top political appointees are already at the E.P.A. preparing to erase the agency’s climate rules and pollution controls. Many of them have tried it before.

Trump also renamed Denali, North America’s tallest peak, as Mount McKinley, despite objections from Alaska’s senators.

The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The state’s senators prefer the Native name.

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

President Trump’s wave of executive orders yesterday sent an undeniable signal to the world about the United States’ role in fighting climate change.

The president said he’d declare an energy emergency, increase drilling and end support for electric cars. His pivot to oil and gas follows the hottest year in recorded history.

Republicans said they were seeking ways to quickly reverse the restrictions in the state’s North Slope region.

The former North Dakota governor told senators at his confirmation hearing that he sees limits on energy production as a national security threat.

Harold G. Hamm, the founder of the Oklahoma-based Continental Resources, and other oil and gas companies stand to profit from Donald Trump’s energy policies.

Posting on the social media site he owns, Mr. Musk blamed the fires on government. Scientists said a warming planet set the conditions.

Treaties ratified by the Senate in 1978 established permanent neutrality, but some Republicans regret that decision.

No companies bid for the chance to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the second auction in four years that failed to draw strong interest.

With these two new monuments, Mr. Biden has protected more federal land and waters than any other president, about 674 million acres.

The ban affects the entire Eastern Seaboard, the Pacific Coast along California, Oregon and Washington, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Northern Bering Sea.

The newly elected Speaker said the party would make it a priority to “restore America’s energy dominance.”

Global warming is making both places more important to global shipping and trade.

The move, expected as early as Monday, relies on a 70-year-old law that could make it difficult for the Trump administration to reverse it.