Trump has pledged to overturn Biden’s progress on climate change. What will that mean?

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump pledged Monday to overturn climate-focused policy, promising once again to “drill, baby, drill” for the “liquid gold” largely responsible for the world’s life-threatening warming. The incoming Trump administration has vowed to end former President Joe Biden’s policies of “climate extremism,” reviewing and potentially repealing all regulations that “impose undue burdens on energy production and use,” ending leasing to massive wind farms that they say degrade natural landscapes and fail to serve American consumers, and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Trump’s critics saying pulling out of the agreement would hand China a competitive edge for the clean energy economy as well as leave the rest of the world “holding the bag.” “For the next few years the best we can hope is that Washington won’t manage to wreck the efforts of others,” climate activist and writer Bill McKibben told The Associated Press. While Trump buries his head in the sand, it’s going to be up to state leaders to lock eyes on the climate crisis and lead us toward a livable future.” The Center for Biological Diversity also announced on Monday that it had sued the Trump administration to obtain public records showing how people representing the Department of Government Efficiency — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — have interacted with the White House since the transition began, saying that the records concern the Office of Management and Budget’s key functions and duties that affect climate change and environmental issues.