Trump’s Week One Ends With a Heap of Climate Rollbacks

Jan. 25, 2025, 11:00 AM UTC

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.

That was just the beginning. The rest of the week brought even more executive orders, the deletion of White House climate webpages, postponing climate-related seminars, vows to shrink or dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and more. Many of these efforts were signaled ahead of time and have repeated steps Trump took the first time ...

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