Trump Signs Executive Order Pulling U.S. From Paris Climate Accord – Watts Up With That?

From Legal Insurrection

And by not attending the Davos conference, Trump now leads other international leaders in “quiet quitting” globalist environmental rules that have only strangled their economies and hurt their peoples.

Posted by Leslie Eastman 

After his election win in November, I wrote that President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and open up western lands for drilling and mining:

(a) The United States Ambassador to the United Nations shall immediately submit formal written notification of the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The notice shall be submitted to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the Depositary of the Agreement, attached as Appendix A. The United States will consider its withdrawal from the Agreement and any attendant obligations to be effective immediately upon this provision of notification.

This executive order was among the first he signed in the festive post-inauguration parade signing ceremony in the Capital One Arena.

…He intends to streamline permitting and review regulations that “impose undue burdens on energy production and use, including mining and processing of non-fuel minerals,” according to a list of priorities from Trump’s press office.

He also intends to take action to end land and water leasing for wind energy, and undo the Biden administration’s actions that promote electric vehicles.

Trump views energy prices as central to his mission to address widespread frustrations with the cost of living, and has argued that slashing red tape will help drive down energy prices and fight overall inflation.

“The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices,” Trump said during his inaugural address. “That’s why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.”

The crowd very enthusiastically cheered his signing of the order.

The full title of that order is: “Putting America First in Environmental Agreements”.

The whole suite of newly signed presidential orders is listed on the highly revamped White House website. This executive order’s “Implementation” portion heavily targets funding commitments.

…(c) The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, in collaboration with the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury, shall immediately cease or revoke any purported financial commitment made by the United States under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

…(e) The U.S. International Climate Finance Plan is revoked and rescinded immediately. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, within 10 days of this order, issue guidance for the rescission of all frozen funds.

In his pre-signing remarks, Trump looked at the largest contributor of carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions….China.

“I am officially withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Accord – a one-sided deal that hurts American industries while letting China pollute freely. We will no longer cripple our economy for a globalist agenda!”

As an added bonus, Trump does not plan to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum this year in Davos. In fact, many international leaders are “quiet quitting” globalist environmental agreements that do nothing more than strangle their economies and hurt their people.

While Donald Trump, who is being inaugurated as U.S. president on Monday, is expected to address the forum via live video link on Thursday, a number of key leaders will be completely absent from the event.

These include Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations — which includes the U.S., Europe’s biggest economies, Canada and Japan — the only head of state attending the summit in person is outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

I am looking forward to energy independence and regulations that properly balance reasonable environmental concerns with effective natural resource development.