Trump signs executive order
President Donald Trump signed his first seven executive orders as president on Monday at Capital One Arena, including withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.
washington – Minutes after being sworn in, President Donald Trump said he was ready to sign a series of executive orders that would include withdrawing environmental protection personnel and reopening waters to drilling.
The White House said in a statement: “The President will unleash energy by ending Biden’s climate extremist policies, streamlining the permitting process, and reviewing and repealing all regulations that unduly burden energy production and use, including the extraction and processing of non-fuel minerals. American energy.
Trump rolls back environmental protections
Trump signed an executive order reversing climate policies aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that warm the planet.
Inauguration Day 2025: President Trump sworn in
President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president, declaring that “America’s golden age begins now.” Trump has promised to issue a series of executive orders. Due to the cold weather, the ceremony was moved indoors.
He has rolled back environmental protections, halted wind power projects, undermined the Biden administration’s goal of encouraging a shift to electric vehicles and scrapped standards for companies to become greener.
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He has previously pledged to increase U.S. fossil fuel production, pledging to “drill, drill, drill” on his first days in office and seeking to open up the Arctic wilderness to oil drilling, which he claimed would lower energy costs.
Trump signed an executive order halting offshore wind lease sales and suspending approvals, permits and loans for onshore and offshore wind projects.
Trump’s order says the Interior secretary will review federal wind leasing and permitting practices. The order states that the review will consider the environmental impacts of onshore and offshore wind projects, the economic costs associated with intermittent generation and the impact of subsidies on the viability of the wind industry.
Trump wants to increase oil and gas drilling and is hostile to renewable energy, especially offshore wind power.
Trump threatens to regain control of Panama Canal
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He said the United States has “levels of oil and gas that other countries don’t have, and we’re going to take advantage of that. It’s really our greatest economic asset.”
Trump vows to build what he calls America’s global “energy dominance” He seeks to promote U.S. oil and gas drilling and move away from Biden’s focus on climate change.
Biden bans new offshore oil and gas drilling before leaving office
Backstory:
Former President Joe Biden has banned new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters, a last-minute effort to block a potential expansion of offshore drilling by the incoming Trump administration.
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Biden’s move sparks support, anger
On the other side:
The National Offshore Industries Association, which represents offshore drillers, called Biden’s decision “a strategic mistake driven not by science or voter mandate but by political motivations.”
Eric Milito, the organization’s president, said: “This move directly harms the interests of American energy consumers and jeopardizes the huge benefits of a booming domestic energy industry.”
Environmentalists applauded Biden’s actions, saying new oil and gas drilling must be sharply curtailed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. 2024 is the hottest year on record.
“This is an epic victory for the oceans!” said Joseph Gordon, campaign director of the environmental organization Oceana.
Gordon thanked Biden for “listening to the voices of coastal communities opposed to drilling” and “contributing to the bipartisan tradition of protecting our coasts.”
source: The Associated Press contributed to this report. The information in this article comes from statements by President Donald Trump, former President Joe Biden, and various interest groups, including the National Ocean Industries Association and environmental advocacy groups such as Oceana. This story was reported from Los Angeles.