BOSTON – There is a clean energy bill sitting on Gov. Maura Healey’s desk and Beacon Hill’s calendar for this week includes an array of energy-related events and reports. But there are also mounting indications that the federal government could change course on energy policy under the administration that President-elect Donald Trump is assembling.

Monday started with Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll’s announcement in Boston of a Massachusetts Clean Energy & Environment Legacy Transition initiative, a collaboration with higher education aimed at pursuing clean energy, building a geothermal workforce here and promoting environmental equity.

With two key nominations in recent days, Trump’s transition team has signaled that the White House come late January will approach energy issues differently than states like Massachusetts, where there’s been bipartisan support for the state’s commitment to moving away from fossil fuels and getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

“The most difficult thing is going to be continuing to try and meet emissions targets. We know this incoming administration is going to press heavily on oil and natural gas and the expansion of those, so that does obviously present a major challenge going forward as we try to curtail those,” Kyle Murray, senior advocate and Massachusetts program director at the Acadia Center, said. “Massachusetts is taking some fairly nascent first steps towards limiting the expansion of the gas system in the state, and there are fed efforts that could potentially undermine that work.”

The president-elect announced Friday that he had picked North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to head up the U.S. Department of the Interior and to serve as chairman of a newly-created National Energy Council, which Trump said “will consist of all Departments and Agencies involved in the permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, transportation, of ALL forms of American Energy.”

“This Council will oversee the path to U.S. ENERGY DOMINANCE by cutting red tape, enhancing private sector investments across all sectors of the Economy, and by focusing on INNOVATION over longstanding, but totally unnecessary, regulation,” Trump said in a statement that did not specifically mention any form of renewable energy. “With U.S. Energy Dominance, we will drive down Inflation, win the A.I. arms race with China (and others), and expand American Diplomatic Power to end Wars all across the World.”

Interior has oversight of the lands, minerals, and other resources of the United States, including 420 million acres of federal lands, nearly 55 million acres of tribal lands, more than 700 million acres of subsurface minerals, and about 2.5 billion acres of the outer continental shelf, according to the Congressional Research Service. The department is crucial to the offshore wind industry – while other forms of energy production can be developed on private land, offshore wind relies on the federally-owned continental shelf.

Trump also indicated this weekend that he will nominate oil industry executive Chris Wright, the CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, to lead the U.S. Department of Energy. As secretary, Wright would head up the department that maintains the safety and reliability of the country’s nuclear stockpile, leads the cleanup of Cold War-era nuclear efforts, oversees energy supplies, and develops innovations in science and technology.

“There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either,” Wright said in a video he posted to LinkedIn last year. “Humans and all complex life on Earth is simply impossible without carbon dioxide. Hence, the term carbon pollution is outrageous. Carbon dioxide does indeed absorb infrared radiation, contributing to warming, but calling carbon dioxide pollution is like calling out water and oxygen, the other two irreplaceable molecules for life on Earth. There is no such thing as clean energy or dirty energy. All energy sources have impacts on the world, both positive and negative.”

Lindsey Baxter Griffith, a former policy advisor to U.S. Sen. Ed Markey who also worked in the U.S. Department of Energy under the Obama and Trump administrations, said she co-founded the clean energy advocacy group Clean Tomorrow earlier this year specifically to be “non-partisan, because durable clean energy policy should not, in fact, be at the mercy of elections.”

“Regardless of which party is in power, clean energy innovation is a political, an economic and an environmental win, because investing in the new and cutting-edge technologies in the clean energy sector that create American jobs lets us out compete other countries, and that is popular with everyone,” she said Monday morning.

Murray said the incoming Trump administration “could put up some major roadblocks and make life difficult” for renewable energy industries, including offshore wind. But he also noted that many of the large oil and gas companies have already begun to diversify and invest in renewables.

“There’s a world you could envision where those companies are pressing for investment in all of the above – oil, natural gas, offshore wind, solar, all of those things. There is a potential opportunity there,” Murray said. He added, “The energy transition is big business and there’s a lot of money involved in it. So there’s some hope that that train has left the station too much. That being said, there’s always the caveat that you never know.”

Trump’s statement laid out a plan in which Burgum, a former software executive, oversees expansive drilling for the “’Liquid Gold’ and other valuable Minerals and Resources, right beneath our feet” on federal lands as a way to pay down the national debt. Despite a clear interest in oil drilling and other fossil fuels, the president-elect said he plans to “expand ALL forms of Energy production to grow our Economy, and create good-paying jobs” and mentioned “dramatically increasing baseload power.”

Baseload power often refers to generation sources like coal- and natural gas-fired power plants, but nuclear power could also figure into Trump’s interest in seriously expanding non-intermittent energy production.

The clean energy bill waiting for Healey’s action includes a nuclear power procurement option that Rep. Jeff Roy described as “a limited one” allowing the administration to coordinate with other states “to enter into contracts to procure clean energy, and we specifically made reference to opening it up to existing nuclear facilities.” That makes both Millstone Nuclear Power Plant in Connecticut and Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire options.

The last nuclear power plant to operate in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, shut down for good in 2019 and is in the midst of a decommissioning process.

Baxter Griffith pointed out that Wright sits on the board of modular nuclear reactor company Oklo Inc. and said that sector could be one where clean energy advocates and the incoming Trump administration find harmony.

“We have known for a while that nuclear is, among a lot of clean energy issues, a very bipartisan area of cooperation in Washington. I expect that to continue. Most of the dollars that are moving out of the Department of Energy for nuclear programs, especially in advanced fission, will continue. I also expect to see more research dollars,” she said. She added, “As demand has increased in the electricity sector, nuclear for generation is growing as an area of interest as well, and I expect the Department of Energy to be a part of those conversations going forward.”