Trump Bulldozes Climate Hysteria

_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the climate change industry. Since taking office, the administration has frozen research grants, dismantled federal climate programs, cut off funding to elite universities that research climate issues, and launched legal challenges against state-level climate laws. At the same time, Trump ordered a rollback of federal environmental regulations and influenced billionaire donors like Jeff Bezos to stop funding what the White House now calls “climate alarmism.”

Trump’s goal? End the weaponization of climate science, restore American energy, and stop public institutions from using taxpayer dollars to push an ideologically driven environmental panic.

_THE FACTS_

• Upon taking office in January, President Trump re-exited the Paris Agreement and reopened 625 million acres for oil and gas drilling.

• Billionaire Jeff Bezos subsequently pulled funding from a key group enforcing Paris Agreement climate targets.

• Offshore wind projects are on hold as the White House reconsiders their environmental and economic impacts.

• The White House froze nearly $4 million in climate research grants to Princeton, citing its role in promoting “implausible” climate threats and fostering fear.

• They also pulled the plug on the US Global Change Research Program, the agency behind the government’s top climate report.

• Under Biden, the government outsourced the production of the report to ICF International, an international consulting company, to the tune of $34 million.

• An executive order signed by President Trump empowers the Justice Department to challenge state climate laws and carbon tax schemes that “weaken national security and energy dominance.”

• The Trump administration is proposing to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) budget by 27 percent, including a 74 percent cut to its Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Office.

• The plan would eliminate all funding for climate, ocean, and regional data labs while preserving only tornado and basic weather research.

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