He will also scrap Biden’s “environmental justice” policies.
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement and allow drilling and mining on some national monuments.
According to The New York Times, Trump has prepared a raft of measures to reverse Biden policies on energy and the environment.
As well as withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreements for the second time, Trump will scrap Biden’s “environmental justice” policies that have focused on providing green energy to underserved communities, as part of a broader agenda to “dismantle what Mr. Trump’s allies view as the ‘woke’ agenda and any programs that do not help improve the economy,” says The Times.
The new president will also move to end the Biden administration’s pause on the construction of new export terminals for natural gas, and to revoke a waiver that allows California and other states to set more stringent pollution standards than the federal government.
Trump also plans to appoint an “energy czar” to coordinate policies across government agencies and make it easier to increase production of oil, gas and coal.
Members of the transition team are also discussing moving the EPA’s headquarters, along with its 7,000 staff, out of Washington DC.
