Donald Trump is preparing to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement when he returns to office in January…
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By Victor Nava
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations that would withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and open up western lands for drilling and mining, according to a report.
Trump’s energy and environment transition team – tasked with drafting these actions – includes his former Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Trump, 78, pulled the US out of the Paris accord early in his first term, arguing that it was ineffective because it allows countries to voluntarily restrain their own pollution and seeks to hold the US and other industrialized countries to a higher standard.
President Biden re-entered the agreement shortly after taking office.
Trump’s transition team has also readied proclamations that would redraw the boundaries of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah.
The president-elect reduced the among of land under management by the federal government at Bears Ears (by 85%) and Grand Staircase-Escalante (47%) during his first term, following an expansion under the Obama administration.
Trump argued that the expansion amounted to “a massive federal land grab” and an “egregious abuse of federal power,” and shrinking their size would “give that power back to the states and to the people where it belongs.”
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— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) November 9, 2024
