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"Donald Trump, newly installed for his second term as president of the United
States, has directed his government to begin a withdrawal from the Paris
Agreement, and taken aim at a wide swathe of pro-environment and clean energy
policies put in place by the outgoing Biden administration.
Within the first few hours of being sworn in as the 47th president of the
United States, Donald Trump signed off on a deluge of executive orders –
directives to manage operations that are often used as a means of deploying
presidential power without the need for Congress.
In his run for the presidency, Donald Trump took aim at everything from sharks
and batteries (at times together) to “windmills”, electric vehicles,
international treaties, and financial support for clean energy projects.
In this vein, many of the executive orders signed during Trump’s first few
hours in office were performed as a sort of political theatre broadcast live to
thousands of delighted MAGA supporters watching from the Capital One Arena in
downtown Washington.
Among the orders – which covered everything from attempting to save TikTok,
forcing government employees to return to in-person work, something to do with
the architecture of public buildings, and reinstating the federal death penalty
– Trump took the axe to the country’s environmental and clean energy transport
policies.
Here’s what we know – and an early look into what it all might mean, for the
climate and clean energy in US and the rest of the world."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
