The Heartland Institute Applauds President Trump’s Executive Orders on Climate and Energy Policy

Published January 21, 2025
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With a flurry of signatures, Trump wiped out every vestige of his predecessor’s policies

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (January 21, 2025) – Within hours of taking the oath of office yesterday, President Trump followed through on his promises to reverse the Biden administration’s climate and energy policies. Trump took the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, declared an energy emergency, opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to energy exploration and extraction, put a moratorium on off-shore wind projects, ended the electric vehicle mandate, and more.

The Heartland Institute, the leading global think tank countering climate alarmism and the energy policies it fosters, applauds the President Trump’s actions, and look forward to at least four years of climate realism and American energy dominance.

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 “Donald Trump acted quickly and decisively on his first day in office. This is a welcome change from prior administrations. Nobody else would have been as bold and discerning in his first day in office, let alone an entire presidential term.”

James Taylor
President
The Heartland Institute
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“This is what winning looks like, democracy in action. President Trump had perhaps the best first day of any president ever, in terms of accomplishments and hitting the ground running. His executive orders pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement; ending dozens of Biden administration executive orders that wasted billions on inane climate projects and offices and restricted fossil fuel development; and Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on energy, placing new domestic energy development and delivery systems, show he understands how critical energy is to America’s economic progress and average American’s pocketbooks.

“Climate change is not a crisis, and climate policies are a hoax, since there is no evidence any actions Biden or international bodies take will actually benefit humanity or the Earth. All Biden’s policies accomplished were to make the United States beholden to China, the world’s largest emitter and growing, for our energy needs. That an awful geopolitical and economic position to be in.”

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.
Director
Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy
The Heartland Institute
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“Thanks to President Trump, ‘our long national nightmare is over’ when it comes to energy and climate. With his withdrawal again from the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, Trump sends the message that these international agreements are irrelevant and not in our national interest, because it ‘steered American taxpayer dollars to countries that do not require, or merit financial assistance in the interests of the American people.’

“Most importantly, it’s been proven that the Paris Climate Agreement is already a failure. The accord was aimed at limiting long-term global warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels. Well thanks to an El-Nino event and the Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption, the limit was already exceeded in the last year, proving that humans can’t control planetary temperature. President Trump recognized there’s no reason to limit energy production or use, because doing so has had no effect.”

Anthony Watts
Senior Fellow
The Heartland Institute
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“President Trump’s energy- and climate-related orders yesterday provide a welcome course correction from the Biden shadow administration’s four years of heavy-handed policy idiocy. However, we are a nation of laws, not decrees, so for lasting change Congress needs to step up and codify what they can of Trump’s actions into law, otherwise what has been done will be immediately undone during the next Democratic administration, just like it was four years ago, and just like it possibly could be four years from now.

“A good start would be repealing the hundreds of billions of dollars of green giveaways in the Inflation Reduction Act and completely eliminating the $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit that is nothing more than a welfare program for the upper middle class.”

Tim Benson
Senior Policy Analyst
The Heartland Institute
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