"The year 2025 began with President Trump withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement the opening salvo in what would become a concerted campaign to dismantle the nation's ability to combat climate change. From there, the Trump administration moved aggressively to gut key emissions standards for power plants and vehicles; suspend offshore wind projects; open millions of acres of protected land for fossil fuel extraction; extend the life of dirty coal plants; and reverse key Inflation Reduction Act initiatives."
"By November, the value of clean energy project cancellations stood at $32 billion, and the number of clean energy jobs lost at 40,000. These policy reversals will set back the clean energy transition and lock in fossil fuels for years, but this White House's most enduring damage will be the destruction of the scientific infrastructure that has enabled our understanding of climate change and informed our policies to combat it. Through the disruption of research programs, shuttering of agencies and institutions, mass firings of experts, and elimination of career paths, the Trump administration is undermining climate science in ways that will hobble American competitiveness for generations."
President Trump's 2025 withdrawal from the Paris Agreement initiated sweeping policy rollbacks that weakened emissions standards, halted offshore wind, opened protected lands to fossil fuels, prolonged dirty coal plants, and reversed Inflation Reduction Act measures. By November, clean energy cancellations reached $32 billion and 40,000 jobs were lost. Those reversals will delay the clean-energy transition and entrench fossil-fuel dependence. Simultaneously, disruption of research programs, agency closures, mass firings, and lost career paths are degrading scientific infrastructure and undermining climate science. The degradation of research capacity risks long-term damage to American competitiveness while China expands research investment.
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