Trump Action Archive

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• Interior Secretary Burgum announced end to wind and solar subsidies — Interior Secretary and former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum announced on Fox Business that the administration is ending 33 years of subsidized preferential treatment for wind and solar energy. Burgum repeated administration talking points about intermittent and unreliable renewable energy, despite wind power providing over one-third of North Dakota's power supply during his governorship.

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• EPA head announced revocation of 2009 endangerment finding on greenhouse gases — EPA head Lee Zeldin announced that the Trump administration would revoke the 2009 "endangerment finding," a declaration that found that greenhouse gas emissions lead to global warming and threaten public health. Zeldin called the move, which would remove the federal government's authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the "largest deregulatory action in the history" of the US, if finalized.
• Environmental groups and former EPA leaders condemned endangerment finding revocation — Zeldin's announcement prompted widespread backlash from environmental groups, the scientific community, and three former EPA leaders. The executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council told AP that the move "boggles the mind and endangers the nation's safety and welfare" as the US faces deadly floods and heat waves, adding that the council will sue the EPA if "this illegal and cynical approach" is finalized.
• EPA moves to rescind 2009 endangerment finding on greenhouse gases — Trump loyalists at the Environmental Protection Agency moved in August to rescind the agency's 2009 endangerment finding that has underpinned climate change regulatory efforts since the Obama administration. The move rejects widely accepted scientific consensus on climate change despite increased scientific evidence supporting the original finding.

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• Trump administration blocked solar and wind project permitting — The Trump administration blocked permitting for new solar and wind energy projects, including projects on private land. This action restricts renewable energy development through administrative barriers rather than subsidy removal, imposing culture-war priorities over market economics.