By Robert Bradley Jr. — January 25, 2025
“I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green New Deal — I call it the “Green New Scam”; withdrew from the one-sided Paris climate accord; and ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate. We’re going to let people buy the car they want to buy.” (- Donald Trump, teleconference address to World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland)
The article from Bloomberg’s Green Daily, “Trump’s Climate Whiplash, came with the subtitle, “President Donald Trump’s nonstop stream of executive orders this week and what they mean for US climate progress.” The article follows verbatim given Trump’s immediate unmasking of climate alarm and reset from forced energy transformation. “Trump’s Week One ended with a heap of [seven] climate rollbacks,” Bloomberg Green began.
President Donald Trump wasted no time in laying the groundwork for a sweeping anti-climate agenda, signing a series of executive orders just hours after being sworn into office that seek to unravel former President Joe Biden’s policies and double down on fossil fuel extraction.
Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. That was just the beginning. The rest of the week brought even more executive orders, vows to shrink or dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and more. “It is all happening very fast,” says Michael Burger, executive director of Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
The dizzying pace of announcements gives the impression that the nation’s entire climate landscape has changed in less than a week, even when that’s not entirely true, explains Burger. While much has indeed happened, he says, “lots of these things are not actually doing what they sound like they’re doing — they’re telling others to look into things and come back with a plan to pursue a broad policy.”
Ultimately, whether or not most things take effect and then stay in place will likely be determined in the courts. Here’s a quick overview of some of the most notable climate-related actions so far:
Paris Agreement Exit
In one of Trump’s first acts, he signed an order directing the US to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the deal that nearly 200 countries signed to rein in greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic warming. Trump did this the last time he was in office too, and no other country followed. It will take at least a year for the move to become official. Environmental leaders have decried the withdrawal, which could give other blocs and nations, especially China, more leverage in global climate talks.
Trump also revoked the US International Climate Finance plan, which had directed billions to help other countries respond to climate impacts.
IRA Spending Paused
Via executive order, Trump directed agencies to “immediately pause” and review the spending of money through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, two major Biden-era laws. The next day, the administration clarified that the pause only relates to energy-related programs, including ones tied to renewable energy and electric vehicle charging but not, say, bridges or highways. The pause is expected to last 90 days, after which federal officials have been directed to share their reviews with the White House and provide recommendations on next steps to take.
It’s unclear what will happen after the pause, and climate experts say there are sure to be legal fights over any attempts to claw back spending.
Electric Vehicles Targeted
As part of his broader energy order, Trump ordered his administration to look into the elimination of subsidies and other policies supporting electric vehicles. In particular, he stated his interest in terminating “state emissions waivers that function to limit sales of gasoline-powered automobiles.” This signals Trump is looking to renew his first-term challenge of California’s ability to limit gas-powered car sales.
Some Wind and Solar Project Approvals Halted
The Interior Department on Monday ordered a 60-day halt in approval of leases, rights of way and other authorizations tied to wind and solar projects on federal lands and waters. In a separate move, Trump signed an executive order, also on Monday, that temporarily halts permitting for new offshore wind projects. Trump has been vocal about his dislike of wind for years, and experts anticipated his targeting of the energy source this time around.
LNG Export Ban Lifted
In sharp contrast to his actions on renewable energy and electric vehicles, Trump immediately moved to lift a Biden-era ban on new liquefied natural gas export licenses. In late December, the Biden administration released a study finding additional exports would raise natural gas prices for US consumers and worsen global warming. Trump similarly revoked offshore oil and gas leasing bans, though it’s unclear how soon new offshore lease sales would occur.
Environmental Justice Dropped
Trump not only overturned Biden-era executive orders directing federal agencies to further consider environmental justice in everything they do, but revoked a 1994 Clinton-era executive order on the issue. The impacts of these rollbacks are tricky to determine: This is partly because agencies may have built environmental justice considerations into their regulations, and undoing that could require new, slow regulatory changes, notes Alice Kaswan, a law professor at the University of San Francisco. One clear immediate impact, though, is the expected shuttering of various environmental justice offices and positions across government.
American Climate Corps Cancelled
Biden created the American Climate Corps, a program designed to get young people working in climate-related starter jobs across the country. This week, Trump dissolved it. It’s unclear if and how this affects people already in jobs they got through the program, which didn’t start from scratch but was built from and embedded within an existing network of job programs run by state and natio
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Oh Dear. Everyone knows that spending money is the only way climate will ever be controlled by humans. We’ve already tried dancing, beating drums, throwing virgins into volcanoes and burning witches, but this time it will work. That Donald is ruining the best laid plans.
“…sweeping anti-climate agenda…” – Bloomberg.
No, Trump’s policies are actually a pro-climate agenda. The climate is doing fine! Just look at the actual DATA ! CO2 doesn’t affect the climate much at all.
The UN is now claiming that digital IDs are a necessity for controlling human induced climate change! It’s a good thing that they are such paragons of public service and virtue; otherwise one might think that they are just a run-of-the-mill bunch of corrupt bureaucrats, predominately representing Marxists, monarchists, and other assorted dictators
Hey, forget about throwing virgins down volcanoes, that is so last season.
Here in the UK we have a new improved form of lunacy it is called Ed Miliband AKA Net Zero man. He has taken pointless gestures to a whole new level not to say cost. We are throwing £22billion of our finest down a black hole called Carbon Capture.
Now the World has been capturing carbon for free for the past 400 million years. The action of converting it into ocean plants, land based trees, more weeds and other green stuff than you can throw a stick at, which is also carbon captured and converted into a stick, resulting in a dropping CO2 to a very low and dangerous level. No matter. Ed thinks doing something very expensive, and very pointless, is the way to show his capacity for doing silly things.
His past efforts doing silly things gave us the Ed stone which was quickly smashed into landfill in case anyone should collect it for future reference. His tutorial on eating a bacon sandwich is world famous and must be seen to fully appreciate the calibre of the man.
I digress.
The destruction of British manufacturing plus the cost of renewable energy plus the cost of carbon capture that would remove the equivalent of nothing and would be undetectable against the amount China pumps into the atmosphere every day, that is what Ed is focused on.
Suffice to say, in Ed’s mind the destruction of civilisation is “unstoppable” when asked to appraise his policy of Net Zero.
Yes, one minute the Labour party are complaining about finding a £22Bn Black Hole in the nation accounts and next we have SillyBand wanting to spend £22Bn on, as Rod says, a Stupid, Pointless, but expensive waste of money
Maybe he doesn’t know wha the White Cliff of Dover are made of.
If trees are to be considered carbon capture, then we must preserve their wood before it decomposes.
Gotta love this one:
Environmental leaders have decried the withdrawal, which could give other blocs and nations, especially China, more leverage in global climate talks.
Since China is already exempt from the policies and contributes nothing to climate funds, how much more could they leverage? Perhaps they could lower their contribution still more to a negative number, which would mean any country claiming damages from climate change would owe them money?
And what would China do with more leverage?
Give themselves more exemptions and demand the West do (spend) more.
EOs are a start, but we need legislation.
True, that would be best. But I think most Americans are going to love Trump’s climate policies so much they won’t vote for any more climate emergency politicians.
I wish!
This is epic Trump cheerleading as if dozens of executive orders fix everything Republicans found wrong with the Democrats in the past four years
What we actually see is Trump attempting to rule like a dictator. He is ignoring Congress and the courts
Congress passed the IRA law. It may be a waste of money, but it includes CO2 as a pollutant.
It includes tax credits for electric vehicles (EVs). The IRA also includes tax credits for charging infrastructure and clean energy equipment.
Trump claims he will impound the unspent IRA funds approved by Congress
A dictator
Trump says he is freezing the Department of Energy budget
A dictator
Trump is firing all the inspector generals
A dictator
Trump says he will use the military to do mass deportations
A dictator
Trump is threatening to take Greenland
A dictator
Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Columbia
A dictator
Trump is threatening Panama
A dictator
Trump wants to clear people out of Gaza
A dictator
Trump is talking about Caada as the 51st state
A dictator
Trump wants to ignore his own 2018 USMCA trade deal with Canada and Mexico
A dictator
Congres banned TikTok and Trump reversed their decision
A dictator
Trump declared an energy emergency when the US oil and gas industry is booming and gasoline prices are at a three-year low.
A dictator
Trump wants to arbitrarily cancel birthright citizenship i 14th amendment
A dictator
Dictator Trump’s Orders Feature Nonexistent Emergencies, Illegal Power Grabs, and Blatant Inconsistencies
Trump’s executive orders are legally dubious and inconsistent
Trump is acting in ways that hypocrite Republicans would never accept from a Democrat. Republicans WANT a dictator … who does what they want done.
If this pattern of dictator like threats and actions continues, it will be time to impeach and convict Trump for good reasons, unlike the past two impeachments
Every action Trump has taken is what he was elected to do.
He is following the will of the people.
The very opposite of a dictator.
…
It’s to bad he can’t be more like Obama, and liquidate US citizens with drone strikes; or more like Ol’ Joe, traveling the world, selling his influence to foreign nations for millions in “donations!”
If one man does it he is a dictator, If a group of bureaucrats do it, its liberal democracy
Faugh!
This is hysterical. What a President wants to do does not establish him as a dictator. It can at most establish that he has dictatorial tendencies.
As for whether he will actually succeed in becoming a dictator, assuming he even wants to, the answer is no.
The US Constitution and democracy has survived foreighn and civil wars, pestilence, industrial revolution, depression, slavery and its abolition, large scale immigration — over 200+ years. It will survive Trump, and it will survive any amount of this sort of alarmist arm waving.
They were smart, the founders, and they built to last.
> The US Constitution and democracy has survived foreighn and civil wars, pestilence, industrial revolution, depression, slavery and its abolition, large scale immigration
… and the Biden Crime Family
You beat me to it! 🙂
Biden locked down his citizens.
a dictator
A not a single word from you Mr Green
Biden used citizens as guinea pigs by unleashing a medicine years before time on HIS people
falsely labelling it as vaccine.
a dictator
Biden sent Billions to a dictator in Ukraine who
shut down dozens of political parties and TV stations and imprisoned the opposition, incl Priests,
on a large scale and who killed thousands of east Ukrainians by shelling civilians and deliberately violating the Minsk accords,
a kept on sending money to Ukraine despite the majority of Americans opposing it.
a dictator supporting a dictator
Biden weaponized the justice system against his political opponents
a dictator
Then Biden put his family and his partners in crime(Cheney, Fauci,etc) above the law
a dictator
Biden weaponized the secret services to such a degree that they not only went after school parents, people who returned his daughters diary(Daddy is back ,let’s take a shower Ashley),
imprisoned hundreds of people as result of a hoax
and meddled massively in the 2020 election to make 51 top agents claim that Hunters Notebook is fake, despite a sextape, nudes from Bidens underage Niece – shot by Hunter!- and much other overwhelming evidence
a dictator
Biden has supported in his 50 years + political carreer all fake wars based on lies
and destroyed country after country including mine,
yet insane guys like you
claim that the only US president who did not start a war in decades(Trump)
is a dictator.
You guys are such crazy,perverted morons it is off the charts.
You will kiss my people ass despite the fact that we dispise you and hate your crazy values(you neither had until Obama told you to have them)
but you will instantly turn on your own whenever they don’t go along with your lunacy ,
but within a second you will ignore all your values as soon as you meet a guy like me.
And because of guys like you I am 100%.
No matter how much of a total Judas you guys are and how blindly you will follow any order from the MSM and Big Tech.
As long as Trump is in power the USA can not go to war.
Millions of drones like you would start to protest against a Trump war you’d gladly acceppt from Biden, Obama and Harris.
PS –
As you mentioned Israel to call Trump a dictator.
It was Biden, a self declared Zionist , who is responsible for 95% of the killings,
as tiny Israel ran out of weapons after 3 weeks.
And it was Trump
who started the cease-fire after posting the Jeffrey Sachs vid(something Biden wouldn’t dare in 1000 years)and sending his envoy to Israel.
And who took the credit for it? – Biden.
To engage in whataboutism is to accept the premise that any of the arguments prove trump is a dictator. He is not. Don’t fall into the trap.
Oh, look, RG in disguise.
Have we not had enough of Biden acting like a dictator?
The Biden crime family rakes in tens of millions of dollars of bribes when he was VP. No punishment
A dictator
1500 January 6 political prisoners, some with no trials for over four years, or unprecedented long sentences for non-violent trespassing
A dictator
People forced to take an experimental drug or they can’t travel or work
A dictator
Ignore all immigration laws
A dictator
Financed two wars that killed over 500,000 Ukrainians and allowed Israel to kill 20 Palestinians for every Israeli killed.
A dictator
These were dictator-like actions
You could claim Trump is mainly dictator-like talking
Would Republicans ignore a Democrat President Harris talking like a dictator right after winning a election? I doubt it
Will Trump actually ignore Congress, and the courts, and become a real dictator? The first clue was that he was talking like a dictator. That is evil. Good people should speak up. I did in my earlier comment. But Trump lovers don’t seem to care.
I can’t go for that.
By Trump or by any other politician.
Take it as a challenge to Congress to grow a pair and resume their responsibilities long since ceded to the Executive.
“The first clue was that he was talking like a dictator.”
You don’t get it, Richard. Trump’s talk is the “Art of the Deal” talk. That’s the way Trump does business: He throws out a worst-case scenario for all to see, and then he compromises most of the time. Sometimes not.
You criticized Trump for placing tariffs on Columbia when Columbia refused to take back some Columbian illegal aliens that were being deported from the U.S.
Columbia initially said they would place equal tariffs on the United States. Then, after a few hours thinking about it, Columbia agreed to Trump’s demands that they take back their citizens. So now Trump and the American people are happy, and Columbia does not have to suffer economic penalties which they can’t afford.
Trump is not a dictator, just a hard-nosed deal maker.
I wonder if Richard dictated his lists to a secretary.
Forcing things on people is a dictatorship. Undoing what dictators did is reform and return to sanity. Untwisting the draconian web of legal interpretation and returning to original intent is a step back toward freedom.
59%
The EOs serve to set the agenda for the next 4 years, and with Vance for 8 more years.
Some laws will be required, which involves the Congress.
By then the people will give Trump much more support, and Congress will have no choice, except to pass the laws
I don’t think you understand what a dictator is.
“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means” – Inigo Montoya
Love freedom ‘dictatorship’–just love it.
What a breath of fresh air. Thank you, President Trump!
> a sweeping anti-climate agenda
WTF does “anti-climate” actually mean?
Trump is actually pro-climate – see above post…
Anti-Marxism.
People who are “anti climate” cannot be trusted. They truly believe that humans cannot control the weather, which first is necessary to control the climate.
Anyone who is not on board with controlling the weather is anti climate by definition.
“ They truly believe that humans cannot control the weather, which first is necessary to control the climate.”
This statement does not make sense (to me). Humans CANNOT control the Weather.
“WTF does “anti-climate” actually mean?”
I’d guess it refers to those who want to stop it from changing … as it has done naturally since before Man invented the word “climate”?
All good and sensible. If only the UK had some sensible policies.
A good start to restoring our country to the rule of law, and the protection of our citizens from the unwanted and uneconomical policies that have been foisted on them by the corporate puppets!
Only someone afflicted with pathological, Liberal mind viruses, or Trump Derangement Syndrome, would believe the last week wasn’t a big step in the right direction! The Greatest Show on Earth!
So now we have the crazy word “anti-climate.” It sounds like we are against average weather! But it means we are against the ridiculous and dangerous Climate (and human) Control Movement. I am definitely anti-climate.
I am also anti-climate. I don’t like it and wish it didn’t exist!
No climate for you!
What effect on the rise in atmospheric CO2 has been achieved by the Paris Agreemenr? Which countries are doing anything about the Paris Agreement? The Agreement only exists because at the last minute it was made ‘non-binding’. It established a target of two degrees to be kept under by reduction of atmospheric CO2. That was going to take too long to reach and frighten us; hence the IPCCs much scorned SR1.5 just in time for the failed Katowice COP. Now we’ve reached 1.5 beneficially and the language is all ‘actually it’s not a target- it’s an aspiration and we didn’t mean the world would come to an end da da da ‘. Trump was right then and is now.
What Bloomberg does not know, or what it does not want to know, or is too stupid to understand, is that whatever mankind does it will have no measurable long term influence on the weather and the climate. Therefore no policy, whatever its name, can be ‘pro-climate’ nor can it be ‘anti-climate’.
Let Bloomberg write long diatribes about Trump and let them fret about his policies. It’ll keep them from doing real mischief.
Total nuclear war would change the weather.
What a ridiculous thing to say that someone or something is “anti-climate”.
Apparently the climaterati inevitably suffer critical adverse reactions to good news such as the executive orders noted above. They also react as if stricken with Ebola to news that atmospheric CO2 is doing only good things on planet Earth, that we can power modern society using the reliable, affordable and sustainable power from fossil fuels as long as we do so responsibly, and to the amazing news that someone with more than the usual amount of common sense now leads the largest and wealthiest democracy on Earth. I hope these violent reactions are only temporary and that these climate obsessed casualties return to normal health soon though I suppose, should they fail to recover, the airways will become quite a bit calmer and more focused on things that matter.
Constitutional Republic.
Ending these EV subsidies and mandates is the first step in the right direction. These things were overpriced from the outset by producers who figured that they could con consumers by making them believe price-reducing incentives combined with mandates for their sales would entice people into believing they were doing their part in fighting climate action. Except it didn’t take them long to smell a rat when prices stayed still well above ICEVs and there was a lack of reliability and resale values to boot. So Trump’s actions still leave EVs available, but now people who really want one will be willing to pay the price, while the rest of us still retain the option, and as slumping sales show, aren’t willing to jump on any EV bandwagons.