US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations on leaving the Paris climate agreement and reducing the size of some national monuments to allow more drilling and mining, the New York Times reported Friday. .
Trump would also end a pause on permitting new natural gas export terminals, and repeal a waiver that allows California and other states to have stricter pollution standards, according to the report.
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Some on the transition team are discussing moving the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters out of Washington, according to the report, which cites people involved in the talks.
In 2017, the Trump administration called for the country to be removed from the agreement signed by 194 nations in 2015, which, according to UN data, aims to keep this century’s global temperature rise well below 2°C. above pre-industrial levels, and make efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° C.
In November 2020, the United States left the agreement under President Trump, but in January 2021, President Joe Biden signed an instrument for the nation to return.
With information from Reuters
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