Many of the programs have gone back and forth regarding Richard Nixon’s management, prompting questions that may take years to answer.
How has President Trump influenced climate change policies so far?
Since taking office, President Trump has abandoned efforts to reduce global warming. It could be “more generational to repair damage.”
In his first 100 days of office, President Donald Trump coordinated a campaign to fundamentally reshape the government’s role in protecting the climate and the environment.
He launched a major deregulation effort, saying that existing rules would curb the business.. And he wants to end what the Commerce Department news release calls “an unexaggerated, incredible climate threat.”
“The golden age is here, and we’re starting ‘mine, babies, mine’ for clean American coal,” said Home Secretary Doug Burgham in an example of the administration’s enthusiasm for deregulation and firing of climate change.
The administration also dismantled, funded, and prioritized fossil fuels, punishing wind and solar. The establishment of national forests has resulted in a significant increase in protected ocean zones for logging and fishing. A removal language that describes the impact of climate change on Americans. Weather Service staff who were fired. They cut scientists’ work and their research funds.
The administration continues to carry out several environmental priorities. “President Trump said Americans deserve clean air and clean water,” said White House spokesman Taylor Rogers.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Home Office will also “suspend dangerous wind projects to protect wildlife and use common sense conservation practices while releasing clean American oil and gas,” she said.
Scientists said the outcomes of broader policy changes will be significant and lasting.
“We’ve seen a lot of people living in the world,” said Daniel Swain, climate scientist at the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources and the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Sabin Climate Change Law Center at Columbia University has tracked 106 measures the Trump administration took to reduce or eliminate federal climate measures altogether.
“We were listening to the environmental law and we knew that all guardrails were down,” said Clay Henderson, an environmental lawyer and former president of Audubon Florida.
Much of the program dates back to the time when the bedrock environment law was enacted when it came to Richard Nixon’s management, as the United States faced significant visible pollution. In 1969, the Cuyahoga River was set on fire, and an oil spill in Santa Barbara fouled Miles’ beach, leaving the bald eagle almost extinct.
The Trump administration’s actions put the nation on unknown territory, many scientists have said in interviews and in social media.
“In the first 100 days, generations may be needed to repair the damages this administration has given or proposed to do,” said Alexandra Adams, chief policy advocacy officer for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Environmental advocates say they will raise questions that this effort may take years to answer.
- What happens when you threaten wildlife?
- What are the outcomes of governments that emphasize efforts to combat climate change?
- Does elimination of regulations boost the economy and cause an ecological crisis?
However, legal experts note that many plans announced over the past three months face tough legal challenges and may not be implemented as announced.
Institutions facing major reductions, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Ministry of Interior and NASA, all play a key role in implementing the environmental laws remaining in the book.ssaid Henderson.
weather forecast
What does Lee Zeldin’s EPA rollback mean to Americans?
Lee Zeldin has announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will roll back regulations aimed at fighting climate change and pollution.
Most people receive weather forecasts from private companies such as The Weather Channel and Accuweather, but most of the data originally comes from NOAA, the parent organization of the National Weather Service.
So Swain is why budget cuts on weather services could quickly affect US access to timely forecasts, particularly in rural areas.
“The ability to wake up and get accurate weather forecasts. Someone is there to warn you when your path comes when a tornado or hurricane, flash flood or wildfire.” Swain said.
Weather Services maintains 122 forecast offices nationwide, losing more than 500 staff. After several resignations and acquisitions, the office is 20-40% vacancy.
Environmental protection
To remove the regulations, the administration has said it will curb businesses, but it has taken steps to effectively limit the Endangered Species Species Act, which was first signed into law by Nixon in 1973.
The new proposal, released on April 17, redefines what it means to harm protected plants and animals, and removes habitat destruction from a list of species threats such as the Florida Panthers, Red Wolves, California Condors, Manatees, Sea Turtles and Checker Spot Butterfree.
America’s largest marine sanctuary, first protected by President George W. Bush as one of the presidents, is one of the Pacific Islands’ Heritage Marine National Monuments, one of the Pacific Islands’ most untouched coral reef systems, about 750 miles west of Hawaii, in a number of threatened species that are threatened. According to NOAA, whale.
National forests are open to more logging, and more than half of these public lands are open to timber harvesting, with the majority in the American West. Overall, the U.S. Forest Service is seeking a 25% increase in the amount of timber in national forests provided for logging.
More than 2,400 National Park Service employees have layoffs or buyouts. It is about 10% of rangers and other workers who keep the national park open to more than 330 million people each year.
Aiming for work on climate change
The Trump administration says the threat of climate change is exaggerated – decades of mainstream science support concerns. He also said efforts to curb climate change are stifling US economic growth.
On his first day in office, Trump ordered the United States to retreat from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, preventing federal scientists from participating in the next meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Since then, he has eliminated efforts to reduce or track global warming. It works to overturn global warming, layoffs of staff from key agencies, freezing clean energy funds, and pollution control regulations.
The massive push was to defend coal, oil and natural gas. All of these release greenhouse gases, the driving force behind climate change.
At the same time, the president moved to slow the growth of one of the cheapest forms of electricity generation, wind power, even without federal subsidies, by suspending new or updated approvals for federal wind power.
Climate change references are scrubbed from many government web pages. The administration has ordered Attorney General Pam Bondy to investigate state programs seeking to address emissions and climate change, and announced that the Department of Defense has concluded its “Awakened Climate Change Program.”
The White House put the sixth National Climate Assessment on hold after rejecting 400 volunteer scientists who were trying to write a comprehensive study mandated by Congress in 1990 and published every few years.
The administration also frozen or terminated more than $20 billion in federal candidate grants, but on April 15 a federal judge said the freeze was illegal and ordered funding to resume.
Continuing on to the Heritage Foundation Playbook
Actions, orders and statements from the federal department will closely follow the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” points and tone. This document refers to climate change about 50 times, with nearly 900 pages.
For example, some of NOAA’s programs, including atmospheric research, have formed “a huge operation that will become one of the major drivers of the climate change warning industry and will be detrimental to the prosperity of the United States in the future.”
Efforts to separate the US from clean energy will be costly in the long run, said Julio Friedmann, carbon, hydrogen and biofuel expert at Carbon Direct, a climate solution provider.
“If we retreat from these commitments, we’re paying for energy unnecessary,” said Friedman, who worked for the Department of Energy under President Obama. “We lose commercial opportunities. We lose trade opportunities. And we lose revenue from the industry we are born with.”
Economists agree that there is a great risk in ignoring climate change.
This is “a critical issue in our time,” global investment banking firm Cantor Fitzgerald said in a policy statement last year. “Scientific evidence shows that climate change is dire and life-threatening when unchecked.”
Elizabeth Weisse and Dina Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA Today, writing about climate change. Please reach dpulver @usatoday.com or @dinahvp bluesky or x or @dinahvp.77.
