Deliberate Destruction of the Environment and Climate Change Denial (as well as harming Native Americans and refugees)

Note: This page includes Executive Orders and Presidential Actions that were signed on or before January 24, 2025. It will be updated in the coming days, and kept updated to the best of my ability as time goes on

Summary

  • 1/24/2025: Opened water from dams that have nothing to do with LA to “help” with the LA fires
  • 1/24/2025: Ordered a plan to help people who were displaced by the LA fires and Hurricane Helene
  • Removes all wind-related energy projects
  • Withdraws protections for Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge, so its land can be leased to oil and gas companies
  • Removes all environmental protections regarding oil and gas development in Alaska
  • Expedites permits for natural resource production in Alaska
  • Revoked public land orders that returned land to Native populations in Alaska
  • Orders review to potentially take Alaska Native lands into trust and revoke Alaska Native Corporations
  • Removes restrictions on sport hunting and tripping in national preserves in Alaska
  • Orders immediately rescinding any agency action that may hinder oil, natural gas, logging, mining, or hunting projects in Alaska
  • Declares national emergency regarding energy and mineral production
  • Grants departments and agencies the ability to exercise any and all emergency authority available to “facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on Federal lands”
  • Asks for recommendations for the use of eminent domain to seize land to drill for oil and natural gas
  • Calls for energy production on Federal lands and waters, including the Outer Continental Shelf
  • Eliminates “EV mandate” that never actually existed
  • Eliminates subsidies that encouraged purchasing and producing EVs
  • Agencies should review all existing guidelines and identify and that ““impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources — with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources”, and then develop and implement plans to rescind anything identified as “unduly burdensome”
  • Removes all monitoring of greenhouse gasses
  • Disbands Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Restored permit for Keystone Pipeline?
  • Disbands advisory council on science, tech, and innovation
  • Revokes Biden order improving refugee programs
  • Disbands the Climate Change Support Office
  • Revokes Biden order of target net-zero emissions by 2050
  • Revokes Biden order for job creation in clean energy
  • Revokes Biden order to consider new emission and fuel efficiancy standards for vehicles model 2027 and later
  • Revokes Biden order for forest protection and to honor Tribal treaty rights
  • Revokes Biden order to try to achieve a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035
  • Disbands Environmental Justice Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council
  • Immediately terminates all activities, programs, and operations associated with the American Climate Corps
  • Removes and revokes all Federal funding for anything related to EV production, efficient appliances, environmental justice, greenhouse gas monitoring, clean energy job creation, climate change research, forest protections, etc
  • Orders agencies to stop all actions related to greenhouse gas monitoring, clean energy job creation, climate change research, forest protections, etc
  • Immediately terminates any contract or agreement between the US and any third party on behalf of entities or programs related to the environment or climate change
  • Disbands the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases, and throws out all guidance and recommendations made by that agency
  • Eliminates the “social cost of carbon” calculation from any Federal permitting or regulatory decision
  • “Terminates” the Green New Deal–something that was never actually adopted
  • States that all agencies must pause the disbursement of funds earmarked in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
  • Directs the Secretary of Energy to restart reviews of applications for approvals of liquified natural gas export projects
  • Agency heads must identify any actions that “impose undue burdens on the domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals” and take steps to revise or rescind those actions
  • Removes us from the Paris Climate Agreement
  • Removes us from  “from any agreement, pact, accord, or similar commitment made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”
  • Immediately revokes and rescinds the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan
  • Revokes Biden order that called to help the economy by implementing the Act’s Made-in-America requirements and bolstering United States manufacturing and supply chains
  • Revokes Biden order that called to job opportunities for millions of Americans by focusing on high labor standards for these jobs, including prevailing wages and the free and fair chance to join a union
  • Allows for oil and gas drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf


1/24/2025 Executive Order: “Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/emergency-measures-to-provide-water-resources-in-california-and-improve-disaster-response-in-certain-areas

  • Opened water from dams that have nothing to do with LA to “help” with the LA fires
  • Ordered a plan to help people who were displaced by the LA fires and Hurricane Helene

Memorandum: “Temporary withdrawal of all areas on the outer continental shelf from offshore wind leasing and review of the federal government’s leasing and permitting practices for wind projects”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects

  • Removes all wind-related energy projects for the purpose of generating electricity, and eventual removal of windmills used for this purpose

Executive Order: “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary resource potential”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-alaskas-extraordinary-resource-potential

  • Note: This basically just rapes the shit out of Alaska for oil and lumber, with the goal of destroying the entire ecosystem
  • Requires “fully” utilizing “Alaska’s vast lands and resources for the benefit of the Nation and the American citizens who call Alaska home”
  • Maximizes the development and production of the natural resources located on both Federal and State lands within Alaska
  • Expedites the permitting and leasing of energy and natural resource projects in Alaska
  • Prioritizes the development of Alaska’s liquified natural gas (LNG) potential, including the sale and transportation of Alaskan LNG to other regions of the United States and allied nations within the Pacific region
  • Withdrawals the protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, so that its land can be leased to oil and gas companies
  • Removes all environmental protections regarding oil and gas development
  • “Rescind[s] any guidance issued by the Bureau of Land Management related to implementation of protection of subsistence resource values in the existing special areas and proposed new and modified special areas in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska”
  • Expedites development of roadways between King Cove and
  • the Cold Bay airport
  • Reinstates public land orders that revoked land from native populations in Alaska
  • Declares the need to “immediately review all Department of the Interior guidance regarding the taking of Alaska Native lands into trust and all Public Land Orders withdrawing lands for selection by Alaska Native Corporations to determine if any such agency action should be revoked”
    • Note: Alaska Native Corporations was established in 1971, with the passing of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
      • This settled land and financial claims by Alaska Natives and created 13 regional corporations to administer the claims
      • These corporations are owned by Alaska Native people
  • Denies the pending request to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to an establish indigenous sacred site in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • Removes restrictions on sport hunting and trapping in national preserves
  • Ensures “to the greatest extent possible” that hunting and fishing opportunities on Federal lands are consistent with similar opportunities on State lands
    • So no wildlife protection at all
  • Identify what would be needed to “immediately achieve the development and export of energy resources from Alaska — including but not limited to the long-term viability of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System”
  • States that “ The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, shall immediately review, revise, or rescind any agency action that may in any way hinder, slow or otherwise delay any critical project in the State of Alaska.”

Executive Order: “Declaring national energy emergency”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-energy-emergency

  • Declares a national emergency that “The energy and critical minerals (“energy”) identification, leasing, development, production, transportation, refining, and generation capacity of the United States are all far too inadequate to meet our Nation’s needs.”
  • Defines the term “energy” or “energy resources”  as “crude oil, natural gas, lease condensates, natural gas liquids, refined petroleum products, uranium, coal, biofuels, geothermal heat, the kinetic movement of flowing water, and critical minerals”
  • Grants the heads of executive departments and agencies the ability to identify and exercise any lawful emergency authorities available to them to “facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources, including, but not limited to, on Federal lands” 
  • States that, if the use of eminent domain is required to seize the land they want to drill on, recommendations should be provided to the President
  • Considers issuing emergency fuel waivers to allow the year-round sale of E15 gasoline
    • E15 gas is made from corn, so it is less reliant on fossil fuels, but it also produces more greenhouse gases and causes more soil erosion to make AND it drives up the price of corn
  • Expedites the completion infrastructure, energy, environmental, and natural resources projects
  • States that agencies should “use all lawful emergency or other authorities available to them to facilitate the supply, refining, and transportation of energy in and through the West Coast of the United States, Northeast of the United States, and Alaska”
    • So, basically, pipelines and such
  • Agencies must provide details as to what parts of the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act may get in the way of this mandate, and include regulatory reform efforts, species listings, and other related matters with the aim of developing procedural, regulatory, and interagency improvements
    • So basically, find out what parts of those laws may get in the way, so that they can get rid of those parts of the laws

Memorandum: “Putting people over fish: stopping radical environmentalism to provide water to southern CA”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-people-over-fish-stopping-radical-environmentalism-to-provide-water-to-southern-california

  • States that all agencies must “immediately restart the work from my first Administration by the National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies to route more water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to other parts of the state for use by the people there who desperately need a reliable water supply”

Executive Order: “Unleashing American Energy”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy

  • Encourages energy exploration and production on Federal lands and waters, including on the Outer Continental Shelf
  • Eliminates the “electric vehicle (EV) mandate” by terminating, where appropriate, state emissions requirements
    • There was never any such thing as an “ev mandate”
  • Eliminates government subsidies that encouraged purchasing EVs     
  • Calls to “safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads, and to promote market competition and innovation within the manufacturing and appliance industries”
  • States that the global effects of regulations and actions must be reported separately from its ‘domestic costs and benefits’ “in order to promote sound regulatory decision making and prioritize the interests of the American people”
  • No Federal funding be provided for anything related to what is stated above, unless it is required by law  
  • The heads of all agencies shall review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and any other agency actions (collectively, agency actions) to identify those agency actions that “impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources — with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, biofuels, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources”
  • Heads of all agencies must then develop and begin implementing action plans to suspend, revise, or rescind all agency actions identified as “unduly burdensome”
  • Revokes the following Executive Orders, and fires anyone mentioned in the following orders:
    • Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis)
      • Calls for a review of policies that may interfere with confronting the climate crisis
      • Calls to review the status of the Grand Staircase-Escalante, Bears Ears, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monuments
      • Placed a temporary moratorium on all activities of the Federal Government relating to the implementation of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
      • Stated that greenhouse gasses must be monitored accurately
      • Established an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
      • Revoked the permit for the Keystone pipeline
      • Revoked a bunch of Trump orders related to oil drilling
    • Executive Order 13992 of January 20, 2021 (Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation)
      • Revoked a bunch of Trump orders relating to limiting regulation policies
    • Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad)
      • Basically says climate change is real and we need to put it at the forefront of foreign policy and national security, as well as take a government wide approach to addressing it
    • Executive Order 14007 of January 27, 2021 (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology)
      • Created an advisory council on science, tech, and innovation, to advise the president, so as to “make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data”
    • Executive Order 14013 of February 4, 2021 (Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration)
      • Improved refugee program
    • Executive Order 14027 of May 7, 2021 (Establishment of the Climate Change Support Office)
      • Established Climate Change Support Office (CCSO) to “perform the specific project of supporting bilateral and multilateral engagement to advance the United States initiative to address the global climate crisis”
    • Executive Order 14030 of May 20, 2021 (Climate-Related Financial Risk)
      • Stated the policy of:
        • Advancing consistent, clear and accurate disclosure of climate-related financial risk, including both physical and transition risks
        • Acting to mitigate that risk and its drivers, while accounting for and addressing  impacts on disadvantaged communities and communities of color
        • Spurring the creation of well-paying jobs
        • Achieving target of a net-zero emissions 2050
    • Executive Order 14037 of August 5, 2021 (Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks)
      • Asked the EPA and Department of transportation to consider new standards for emissions, fuel economy, and fuel efficiency for vehicles, starting around model year 2027
    • Executive Order 14057 of December 8, 2021 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability)
      • States that it is the policy of the United States that the Federal Government achieves a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050
    • Executive Order 14072 of April 22, 2022 (Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities, and Local Economies)
      • Directs federal agencies to take care of the forests, and “support indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and cultural and subsistence practices”. Also to honor Tribal treaty rights
    • Executive Order 14082 of September 12, 2022 (Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022)
      • Lists the administration’s eight goals to guide implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and authorizes the new White House Office on Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation
    • Executive Order 14096 of April 21, 2023 (Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All)
      • States that agencies should identify, analyze, and address disproportionate and adverse human health and environmental effects (including risks) and hazards of Federal activities, including those related to climate change and cumulative impacts of environmental and other burdens on communities with environmental justice concerns
      • Established an Environmental Justice Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (Environmental Justice Subcommittee)
      • States improvements to community notification of toxic chemical releases
    • Executive Order 11991 of May 24, 1977 (Relating to protection and enhancement of environmental quality)
      • Amended Executive Order No. 11514, to add language that  impact statements should be to be concise, clear, and to the point, and supported by evidence that agencies have made the necessary environmental analyses
  • Immediately terminates all activities, programs, and operations associated with the American Climate Corps
  • Redirects (or “disposes of”) all funding related to anything mentioned above
  • Agency heads must take steps to make sur that any actions related to anything above are terminated or transitioned to other agencies
  • Terminates any contract or agreement between the United States and any third party on behalf of the entities or programs mention above
  • States that agencies must prioritize efficiency and certainty over any other objectives, including those of activist groups, that do not align with the policy goals in this order which could delay the permitting process
  • All agencies only need to adhere to the baseline legislated requirements for environmental considerations, and any considerations beyond these requirements are eliminated.  “In fulfilling all such requirements, agencies shall strictly use the most robust methodologies of assessment at their disposal and shall not use methodologies that are arbitrary or ideologically motivated.”
  • Disbands the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (IWG), and throws out  guidance, instruction, recommendation, or document that was issued by the IWG, including: 
    • Presidential Memorandum of January 27, 2021 (Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking)
    • Report of the Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Measurement Interagency Working Group of November 2023 (National Strategy to Advance an Integrated U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System)
    • Technical Support Document of February 2021 (Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates under Executive Order 13990)
    • Any estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases, including the estimates for the social cost of carbon, the social cost of methane, or the social cost of nitrous oxide based, in whole or in part, on the IWG’s work or guidance
  • Eliminates the “social cost of carbon” calculation from any Federal permitting or regulatory decision
  • “Terminates” the Green New Deal
    • Note: The Green New Deal was never adopted
    • All agencies must pause the disbursement of funds earmarked in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
      • This includes but is “not limited to” funding for electric vehicle charging stations made available through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program
  • Agencies shall “prioritize cost-effectiveness, American workers and businesses, and the sensible use of taxpayer money, to the greatest extent” when making decision that  results in disbursements of Federal funds
  • Directs the Secretary of Energy is to restart reviews of applications for approvals of liquified natural gas export projects
    • The Secretary of Energy shall only consider the economic and employment impacts to the United States and the impact to the security of allies and partners that may result from granting the contracts
  • Agency heads must identify any actions that “impose undue burdens on the domestic mining and processing of non-fuel minerals” and take steps to revise or rescind those actions
  • Re-asses any public lands withdrawals for potential revision
    • Meaning, taking back land that was designated as protected or given to back to native populations
  • States that the director of the U.S. Geological Survey must consider updating the Survey’s list of critical minerals, including for the potential of including uranium
  • Prioritizes efforts to accelerate geologic mapping of the United States, with a focus on locating previously unknown deposits of critical minerals
  • Directs the Secretary of Energy to ensure that mineral projects receive consideration for Federal support
  • Directs the United States Trade Representative to assess whether state-assisted mineral projects abroad “are unlawful or unduly burden or restrict United States commerce”
  • Directs the Secretary of Commerce to assess the national security implications of the Nation’s mineral reliance and the potential for trade action
  • Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to assess the inflow of minerals into the United States and whether such inflows pose a threat to national security
  • Directs the Secretary of Defense to consider the needs of the United States in supplying and maintaining the National Defense Stockpile
  • Directs the Secretary of State, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, the United States Trade Representative, and the heads of any other relevant agencies, to  submit a report that includes policy recommendations to enhance the competitiveness of American mining and refining companies in other mineral-wealthy nations
  • Directs the Secretary of State to consider opportunities to advance the mining and processing of minerals within the United States through the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
    • This is a diplomatic and military arrangement between Australia, India, Japan, and the US, to counter China’s influence

Executive Order: “Putting America first in international environmental agreements”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements

  • This removes us from the Paris Climate Agreement
  • It also removes us “from any agreement, pact, accord, or similar commitment made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”
  • Immediately ceases and revokes “any purported financial commitment made by the United States under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”
  • Immediately revokes and rescinds the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan. Funds must be frozen and guidance provided within 10 days for the rescission of all frozen funds
  • States that any department or agency that plans or coordinates international energy agreements “shall henceforth prioritize economic efficiency, the promotion of American prosperity, consumer choice, and fiscal restraint in all foreign engagements that concern energy policy”

Memorandum: “Delivering emergency price relief for American families and defeating the cost of living crisis”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/delivering-emergency-price-relief-for-american-families-and-defeating-the-cost-of-living-crisis

  • All executive departments and agencies are ordered “to deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people and increase the prosperity of the American worker”.  This shall include:
    •  lowering the cost of housing and expand housing supply
    • “ eliminating unnecessary administrative expenses and rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs”
    •  “eliminate counterproductive requirements that raise the costs of home appliances”
    • create employment opportunities for American workers, “including drawing discouraged workers into the labor force”
      • This is code for white men that were sad about DEI policies
    • “eliminate harmful, coercive “climate” policies that increase the costs of food and fuel”  


Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 13990 of January 20, 2021 (Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • This asked agencies to review policies related to
    • Reducing methane emissions
    • Establishing job creating fuel economy standards
    • Establishing job creating appliance and building efficiency standards
    • Protecting air from harmful pollution
  • Also including a temporary moratorium on all activities of the Federal Government relating to the implementation of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program, pending review of the program and analysis of the potential environmental impacts of the oil and gas program
  • Reinstated Presidential Memorandum of December 20, 2016, restoring the original withdrawal of certain offshore areas in Arctic waters and the Bering Sea from oil and gas drilling
  • Established an Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
  • Revoked the permit for the Keystone Pipeline

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14007 of January 27, 2021 (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Created an advisory council on science, tech, and innovation, to advise the president, so as to “make evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data”

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14008 of January 27, 2021 (Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Basically says climate change is real and we need to put it at the forefront of foreign policy and national security, as well as take a government wide approach to addressing it.

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14027 of May 7, 2021 (Establishment of the Climate Change Support Office)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Established Climate Change Support Office (CCSO) to “perform the specific project of supporting bilateral and multilateral engagement to advance the United States initiative to address the global climate crisis”

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Stated the policy of:
    • Advancing consistent, clear and accurate disclosure of climate-related financial risk, including both physical and transition risks
    • Acting to mitigate that risk and its drivers, while accounting for and addressing  impacts on disadvantaged communities and communities of color
    • Spurring the creation of well-paying jobs
    • Achieving target of a net-zero emissions 2050

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14037 of August 5, 2021 (Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Asked the EPA and Department of transportation to consider new standards for emissions, fuel economy, and fuel efficiency for vehicles, starting around model year 2027

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14052 of November 15, 2021 (Implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Stated that all agencies should prioritize:
    • investing public dollars efficiently, working to avoid waste, and focusing on measurable outcomes for the American people
    • increasing the competitiveness of the United States economy, including through implementing the Act’s Made-in-America requirements and bolstering United States manufacturing and supply chains
    • improving job opportunities for millions of Americans by focusing on high labor standards for these jobs, including prevailing wages and the free and fair chance to join a union
    • investing public dollars equitably, including through the Justice40 Initiative, which is a Government-wide effort toward a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits from Federal investments in climate and clean energy flow to disadvantaged communities
    •  building infrastructure that is resilient and that helps combat the crisis of climate change

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14057 of December 8, 2021 (Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • States that it is the policy of the United States that the Federal Government achieves a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14072 of April 22, 2022 (Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities, and Local Economies)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Directs federal agencies to take care of the forests, and “support indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and cultural and subsistence practices”. Also to honor Tribal treaty rights

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14082 of September 12, 2022 (Implementation of the Energy and Infrastructure Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • investment in the ability of the United States to advance clean energy, cut consumer energy costs, confront the climate crisis, promote environmental justice, and strengthen energy security, among other vital provisions that will lower costs for families, reduce the deficit, and grow and strengthen the economy. The Act will:
    • build on the once-in-a-generation investment in the infrastructure and competitiveness of the United States by accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies, making home energy efficiency and clean energy installations more affordable, and incentivizing the purchase of electric vehicle
    • boost energy security and lower energy costs for families, businesses, and government
    • revitalize American manufacturing by investing in domestic clean energy supply chains and creating well-paying union jobs, including in traditional energy communities
    • improve public health and advance environmental justice and economic opportunity for frontline communities who disproportionately bear the brunt of cumulative exposure to industrial and energy pollution
    • promote climate justice by reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goal of realizing net-zero emissions by no later than 2050
    • harness nature-based solutions—including climate-smart agriculture and forestry—that deliver economic benefits for rural communities, Tribes, farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners
    • expand research and accelerate innovation in the development of clean energy, climate, and related technologies
    • increase the resilience of our communities in the face of a changing climate

Executive Order: Revoked The Presidential Memorandum of March 13, 2023 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas off the United States Arctic Coast of the Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Gas Leasing)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Doesn’t allow oil and gas drilling on the outer continental shelf

Executive Order: Revoked Executive Order 14096 of April 21, 2023 (Revitalizing Our Nation’s Commitment to Environmental Justice for All)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Stated that each agency should make achieving environmental justice part of its mission

Executive Order: Revoked The Presidential Memorandum of January 6, 2025 (Withdrawal of Certain Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf from Oil or Natural Gas Leasing)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions

  • Prevents oil and gas drilling in certain areas of the outer continental shelf
     


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