The president issued Executive Order No. 14082, Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; among other things, the order established the White House Office on Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, which will coordinate the policymaking process with respect to implementing the energy and infrastructure provisions of the Act and other essential initiatives.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement proposed to revise existing regulations for well control and blowout preventer systems that pertain to oil, gas, and sulfur operations in the outer continental shelf to clarify blowout preventer system requirements and to modify certain specific blowout preventer equipment capability requirements.

The Forest Service announced the availability of up to $1 billion in grant funding for the establishment of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant Program as appropriated under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

FERC proposed to direct transmission providers to submit one-time informational reports describing their current or planned policies and processes for conducting extreme weather vulnerability assessments under the Federal Power Act. 

DOE announced the availability of three allocation formulas that will be used to distribute funds to local governments, states, and Indian tribes through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program under the Energy Independence and Security Act. 

EPA and the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission announced and seek comment on a draft programmatic EIS for the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Mitigation of Contaminated Transboundary Flows Project. 

DOE and DOT established the Electric Vehicle Working Group to make recommendations regarding the development, adoption, and integration of electric vehicles into U.S. transportation and energy systems. 

The Forest Service seeks comment on the framework, focus, and direction of its wildfire crisis implementation plan associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and specific provisions of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

DOE seeks comment on its request for information regarding formula grants to be awarded to states and tribes to support investments for preventing outages and enhancing the resilience of the electric grid with funding made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

The president issued Executive Order No. 14072, Strengthening the Nation's Forests, Communities, and Local Economies; among other things, the order directs federal agencies to inventory old-growth and mature forests on federal lands and develop policies to protect them from threats like wildfire and climate change, and to develop a federal goal for meeting agency-specific reforestation targets by 2030.