{"id":136700,"date":"2025-01-20T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-environment\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T06:00:53","slug":"a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"A bonfire of climate regulations\u2019: What Trump\u2019s first days in office could mean for the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136700\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>As Donald Trump prepares to become the 47th president of the United States, what will his first actions be on climate and energy, and how will they impact the rest of the world? With days to go until America\u2019s 47th president is sworn in, the world is holding its breath, waiting to see what happens first. On climate and environmental matters, the outlook appears fairly bleak.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump first entered the White House in 2017 determined to break down many climate ange policies installed during the Obama administration. But that was just the start. The 45th President slashed a lot of what he considered environmental red tape &#8211; policies in line with climate and ecological goals, but which Trump saw as detrimental to business.<\/p>\n<p>Four years of the Biden administration have seen the tatters of environmental policy pieced back together. Regulations are strengthened and restored, investment is stimulated, and fossil fuel expansion is limited. But President-elect Trump has made it clear that rolling back many of these policies will be a priority for him, some even on his first day in office. Can America cope with another flip-flop of environmental focus, and what will it mean for the rest of the world?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis focus on energy and the environment is a central plank of his economic thinking,\u201d explains Professor David H Dunn, Chair in International Politics at the University of Birmingham. \u201cAs far as he&#8217;s concerned, energy dominance is a panacea for a whole variety of ills.\u201d Energy dominance begins at home with a voter favourite often heard on the campaign trail. The incoming president has repeatedly promised to slash energy costs for the American people by 50 per cent in his first year.<\/p>\n<p>How? Trump believes the key is an abundance of supply. Step one in facilitating this will be the dismantling of what he deems to be unnecessary regulation and bureaucracy, opening new opportunities for production. The USA is already the world\u2019s largest producer of natural gas and, since 2023, the top exporter of liquified natural gas (LNG). Exports hit record highs in 2024, with Kpler ship tracking data indicating 86.9 million tonnes were shipped out &#8211; 720,000 tonnes more than the year before,<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration paused new approvals of LNG exports in January last year, ahead of a study into the economic and environmental impact. That report was released in December. &#8221;The main takeaway is that a business-as-usual approach is neither sustainable nor advisable,&#8221; Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told Reuters.Nevertheless, President Trump wants to export LNG at an unprecedented scale as a way to get the upper hand over other oil-producing nations.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Trump\u2019s bid to boost supply is based on the controversial practice of fracking. In 2023, fracking added roughly three billion barrels of crude oil to US production\u2014about 64 per cent of the nation\u2019s total output. Fracking is one of the most environmentally impactful ways of extracting fossil fuels. Chemicals used can contaminate drinking water, methane and other air pollutants are released, and the process can even trigger minor earthquakes. About 95 per cent of new wells drilled in the United States are hydraulically fractured, according to the US Energy Department.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/01\/17\/a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-envir\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\nSource: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/01\/17\/a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-envir\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/a-bonfire-of-climate-regulations-what-trumps-first-days-in-office-could-mean-for-the-environment\/\">A bonfire of climate regulations\u2019: What Trump\u2019s first days in office could mean for the environment<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17632,575,3873],"class_list":["post-136700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-climate-regulations","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-trump"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}