It’s true that President-Elect Donald Trump prefers golf courses and MAGA merch to national parks and wildlife; he’s a noted climate change denier and shameless booster of dirty fossil fuels. It’s also true that those character flaws weren’t the same ones that got him reelected.

The president-elect’s return to the White House in January could erase many US efforts to combat climate change.

Many climate-change experts say the second Trump administration's focus on the economy exposes Americans to more long-term risks from flooding, wildfires and hurricane winds because it would increase rather than decrease the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gasses the U.S. pumps into the atmosphere.

In 2023, the Maryland Department of the Environment released the Climate Pollution Reduction Plan, requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2045. Let’s lead and make that transition more quickly.

President Biden bragged about achieving his goal of delivering $11 billion per year in climate financing, which represents a six-fold increase under his administration.

Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Energy Department, has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather, claiming that storms are

George David Banks, a Trump adviser during his first term in office who has since been working with lawmakers and outside groups on developing climate trade policies, predicted the center of activity would in the next Congress will be around legislation from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), S. 3198, the “Foreign Pollution Fee Act.”

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Energy is fossil fuel executive Chris Wright — who has misleadingly claimed on LinkedIn that “there is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022, is the single-most effective, far-reaching piece of climate legislation ever enacted by the U.S. Congress. But it is now under threat.

In 1996, the IPCC concluded that “the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate”. Controversy around the scientific veracity of this finding was initiated by an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, in which an American physicist accused the lead authors of corrupting the IPCC peer-review process.

American officials are seeking to assure the world that U.S. climate action won’t end with the return of Donald Trump as president.