Louisiana Executive Order JML 25-074: environmental permitting review

On 24 June 2025 the governor ordered the environmental-quality department to prepare its permitting procedures for possible nuclear expansion and to report by the end of 2025. The order stays in effect until the governor changes it or it ends by law. It does not approve a reactor.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: executive order · Louisiana Executive Order No. JML 25-074 (24 June 2025)
Issued by: Governor of Louisiana
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Affects: Environmental review
In effect from: 24 Jun 2025 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Louisiana Executive Order JML 25-074 (Signed PDF opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

The governor directs the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality to adopt procedures that include preparation for potential expansion of nuclear energy generation, and to report by 31 December 2025 on planned reforms, deficiencies, and any statutory or regulatory changes the secretary recommends. The order is effective on signature and lasts until the governor changes or ends it or it ends by operation of law.

Not approved or still pending

Delivery of the 31 December 2025 report was not opened. The order does not permit a plant or issue an environmental permit. No project is linked.

Dated lifecycle

24 Jun 2025 · actual · day · Signed — Witnessed at Baton Rouge on the 24th day of June 2025. Effective upon signature. The 31 December 2025 report deadline is not a finding that the report was delivered. (Louisiana Executive Order JML 25-074)

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

Louisiana Executive Order JML 25-074 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)