(VOR News) – In his first week in office, President Donald Trump took many environmental and climate-related executive measures.

Trump is quickly repealing former President Joe Biden’s climate change restrictions, even though many of his actions will be contested in court.

Experts worry about Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw from international climate action, increase domestic oil and gas production, and abolish electric vehicle incentives in light of the global warming catastrophe. Climate experts say 2024, the warmest year on record, is causing millions of people to suffer from extreme weather.

“These orders will make our air dirtier, make people sicker, make energy more expensive, and make our communities less prepared for extreme weather,” says Urban Ocean Lab co-founder Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist, policy specialist, and author.

Donald Trump carried out the following actions during his first week in office:

The US’ Paris Agreement withdrawal. Donald Trump issued an executive order to leave the Paris climate deal, which promotes international climate change cooperation, on Monday.

Participating nations must reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reduce global warming in domestically specified proportions. Donald Trump’s actions show the federal government’s failure to reduce carbon emissions and pay the UNFCCC.

According to World Resources Institute president and CEO Ani Dasgupta, leaving the Paris Agreement will not protect Americans from climate change. Instead, it will give China and the EU an edge in the clean energy sector and reduce American jobs. Declaring a “national energy emergency” and increasing gas and hydrocarbon consumption

Donald Trump declares that there is an energy emergency.

The instruction promotes oil and gas via the Defense Production Act and federal eminent domain. Experts dispute his claim that the order was due to “inadequate energy supplies.”

Gary Dirks, ASU’s Global Futures Laboratory senior director, says “the United States is adequately supplied with energy in all its forms.” Dirks believes the initiative will lower gasoline prices.

The US produces the most crude ever. He said, “not necessarily as a result of the Biden administration’s policies, but rather of policies that have been in place for forty years.”

Energy emergency proclamation prohibits Endangered Species Act interference with energy development. Gib Brogan, Oceana’s campaign director, said weakening the Endangered Species Act will accelerate the decline and possible extinction of whales and sea turtles, which have slowed fossil fuel development in the US for decades.

President Donald Trump declares that there is an energy emergency. Allowed drilling in parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Biden has allowed and banned Arctic drilling throughout a lengthy legal and political process.

“I’d start by mentioning that there was a recent attempt to lease for oil drilling, but no one placed a bid,” he said. “The Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge isn’t really an exciting location for oil and gas exploration, in my opinion.”

Conservationists and environmental groups share his concerns.

Arizona State University vice president and vice provost of global futures Peter Schlosser says “the Arctic is a very fragile system.” Schlosser added that drilling in the area would damage the land and sea and make oil leak cleanup harder due to chilly weather.

Donald Trump misrepresents Biden’s “electric vehicle mandate,” which will be removed.

This means that the legislation will undermine Biden’s non-binding goal of 50% of new car sales being EVs by 2030. He may also overturn Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a 2022 climate law that gave new electric vehicle buyers a $7,500 tax credit.

Edmunds’ chief of analytics, Jessica Caldwell, says automakers are upset by long-term decisions. Automakers must explain the industry’s global trend and the abrupt loss of federal backing as the world switches to electric vehicles. Electricity is expected to be the goal. She said the schedule is undetermined.

Stop environmental justice.

Government authorities are no longer likely to consider environmental justice and the possible impact of new pollution on emissions that have traditionally disproportionately affected impoverished and minority regions when evaluating new polluting plants.

Justice Outside’s chief program officer, Rena Payan, called these massive programs “rolling back decades of progress in addressing environmental discrimination.”

State and local agencies will struggle to protect those communities. WE ACT for Environmental Justice executive director and co-founder Peggy Shepard says “many of these organizations are accustomed to operating without federal support—they have done so for years.” Donald Trump loss of support will hurt.

“I am grappling with these losses and the fact that we were on an upward trajectory just a few weeks ago,” said Indigenous rights and climate activist Jade Begay.

SOURCE: AP