The president-elect has pledged to weaken air pollution regulations, reverse efforts to slow climate change and continue to boost oil and gas production.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to unchain the oil and gas industry from federal regulations aimed at slowing climate change. Last week, the president-elect once again promised to follow through, saying the U.S. would “have more liquid gold than any country in the world,” a promise that climate policy experts and advocates say will also mean weakening or eliminating federal rules aimed at slowing climate change.
The economy got top billing this presidential election cycle. Climate change? Not so much. Already, climate advocates are preparing to defend existing federal environmental safeguards that curb harmful air pollutants and greenhouse gasses. “Most of what we can credit the Biden administration … was done through his executive authority or rulemakings, and those rules can be undone,” said Adrian Shelley, the Texas director of the government watchdog group Public Citizen.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues EPA over federal rule limiting methane pollution Also included in the Inflation Reduction Act was an effort to expand methane emission reporting requirements as part of a program called Subpart W. Jon Goldstein, associate vice president of energy transition at the Environmental Defense Fund, said the rules were designed to ensure that operators followed federal rules.
Biden LNG pause draws Republican ire at congressional hearing The pause drew the ire of the oil and gas industry, which said it was another way the president undermined international energy security. Industry leaders said they hope to see the Trump administration lift the pause. “We thought from the get-go that was both political and incredibly misguided,” Meyers of the Petroleum Institute said.
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