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Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis
The new president’s orders will take the US out of the Paris Agreement, encourage the extraction and use of fossil fuels, and undo Biden-era policies.
The executive orders and memoranda take the first steps to fulfilling many of Trump’s promises from the campaign trail: Withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement, drilling more oil and natural gas, and repealing multiple Biden-era environmental directives and departments. Trump’s executive orders do, however, send a clear signal about his administration’s environmental priorities: Extracting more fossil fuels, weakening support for green energy, and stepping away from global climate leadership. One executive order focuses specifically on Alaska, which has vast fossil fuel reserves and was the location for Willow—a controversial oil and gas project approved by the Biden administration in 2023.
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