Some environmental policy experts told ABC News that some of the policies that were enacted under the Trump administration will have permanent effects on the environment after the current president leaves his post.
These experts said that President Donald Trump Sunni has a large number of policies that could harm the environment and disrupt the country’s ability to reach the economy of net zero emissions since he took office.
Executive orders include a Declaration of the state of national energy emergencyExpanding mining and using coal in the United States and removing the United States from Paris Agreement For the second time.
Policy stems from the idea of independence or “Establish America first“The president’s orders are orders.
“The United States must grow its economy and maintain jobs for its citizens while playing a leadership role in the global efforts to protect the environment,” Trump wrote on an executive order on the opening day.
It has continued, “in recent years, the United States has claimed to join international agreements and initiatives that do not reflect the values of our country or our contributions to seeking economic and environmental goals.”
on March 6The White House announced that efforts to cancel the restrictions have provided more than $ 180 billion, or about 2100 dollars for each four family, by stopping the proposed Biden era regulations.
The White House said: “When he took office, President Trump immediately prevented these proposed rules and an aggressive aggressive agenda began that requires major discounts in the current regulations of each new agency base.” “President Trump is committed to cutting the meaningless red tape that would reduce costs, lead to higher growth, and enter America in its golden age.”
The garbage that was collected along the river is shown during a tour on the boat of the Cathawichi River in Atlanta, April 22, 2025, on the occasion of Earth Day.
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Experts told ABC News that some of these measures will be difficult to see through the fruits, especially those who focus on increasing the production and use of fossil fuels as the rest of the world looks forward to turning their economies into clean energy.
However, campaigns against wind, energy, batteries, charging electric vehicles and energy efficiency will place the United States on a slower road to bring global warming under control.
“This will lead to tremendous damage in itself,” Holderin said.
“We have the largest amount of oil and gas in any country on the face of the earth, and we will use it,” Trump said during his speech in January. “We will reduce prices, fill our strategic reserves again directly to the top and export US energy around the world. We will be a rich nation again, that it is the liquid gold under our feet that will help to do so.”
Environmental Protection Agency canceling organizational restrictions
Holly Bandar, chief program official at Sierra Club, a non -profit institution for the environment, told ABC News that canceling the restrictions related to the Environmental Protection Agency is among the changes reached by the Trump administration, which is expected to have harmful effects for future decades.
On March 12, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Comprehensive movements To wander environmental protection and get rid of a group of climate change regulations, the EPA Lee Zeldin official described it as “the largest editorial work in the history of the United States.”
Among the 31 procedures, the emissions regulations circulating on coal, oil and gas production and reassessing government results that have previously decided that greenhouse gas emissions heat the planet and pose a threat to public health.

Jason UlSth Chattahochee Jason Ulseth displays the area of a large group of garbage along the West Bank during a boat tour of the Chaathuchi River in Atlanta, on April 22, 2025, on the occasion of Earth Day.
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Bandar said that these measures are adverse policies that have “wide public support”, such as financing for replacement of lead pipes, which reduces mercury pollution in air and water protection and the decline in protection for public lands.
Bandar said: “This is the agency in which it has set criteria for toxic and written air pollutants, such as dioxin or mercury, which is not a safe level of exposure.”
the Party infrastructure law for 2021 Billions invested in cleaning old pollution, enhancing water infrastructure in the country and increasing resources to help companies reduce toxic pollutants, with a focus on deprived and installed societies.
In a statement by ABC News, the Environmental Protection Agency said: “While EPA Biden has repeatedly tried to rape the constitution and the rule of law to impose a” new green fraud “, Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency focuses on the laser to achieve results for the American people while working within the limits of the laws that Congress is going through.”
“We believe that protecting human health and the environment should not come at the expense of creating jobs and operating the great American return,” said the spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency. “We can play both. The Environmental Protection Agency has not lost any time in the progress of President Trump to deliver air, land and clean water to all Americans-with proper mice, accountability and cooperation in the federal environmental policy. In the wings lock with American Auto, American Auto.
Dismantling the National Oceanic and Calf Administration
Experts who spoke to ABC have warned that employment discounts in the National Oceanic and atmosphere Administration can have effects on how meteorologists are expected across the country.
NOAA and National Weather Service, which is part of the Noaa, is responsible for both routine and sophisticated weather forecasts at the country level-tracked hurricanes, hurricanes, forest fires, huni and other events that may threaten life.
However, some research laboratories, regional offices, and satellite operations facilities were closed as a result of employment discounts, the agency has announced in recent months.
Craig Maccine, former research director of NOAA, said during a press conference in March that the basic function such as satellite information and weather and its impact on the health of the aircraft engine comes from these offices. Discounts will lead to severe consequences for the accuracy of weather forecasting, maritime navigation, fishing and air safety industry

Trip Director Jonathan Zawislak at his station during the Hurricane Hurricane trip Lee on September 10, 2023.
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Holden said, regardless of prediction, climate adaptation will also be affected. The country’s ability to adapt to the damage caused by more extremist heat waves, floods, droughts, forest fires, hurricanes and sea level rise as a result of lowering employees inside NOAA.
Holderin said: “The slowdown in these adjustment efforts will increase the damage resulting from the maximum limits related to climate change until the time when Trump is in office,” Holderin said.
A Budget proposal project Through the Management and Budget Office, it suggested a 27 % possible reduction – about 27 % – in NOAA financing for the fiscal year 2026.
It is unclear whether there will be enough employees in any number of regional prediction offices to continue the operations of 24/7, where positions that are usually removed in offices 122 NWS, 13 river prediction centers, and tsunami warning centers were canceled.
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Thousands of positions have been eliminated in federal government agencies that perform a decisive scientific research – including the Environmental Protection Agency, NAA and NOAA, fish service, American wildlife and the national park service – with the launch of the Ministry of Government efficiency, an initiative from the Trump administration to reduce federal spending and maximize government productivity.
Holden said that the cuts extend widely through engineering and science and will lead to a lack of scientific developments and international competitiveness resulting from the United States, which will also have permanent cultural and economic implications.
“The lifeblood of innovation, which has given over the years since World War II, has given the United States the most powerful economy in the world, but also the most productivity, the most powerful environmental protection, and the most capable army,” he said. “You cannot expect the private sector to replace these major discounts in basic research.”
Holdren added that charitable organizations will do their best to fill the gaps, but they do not have enough financing and have other priorities that may have precedence.

On March 22, 2025, a file image, in the center of the National Entertainment area of the Santa Monica Mountains in Calabasas, California, is protested against budget discounts to the national park service by Elon Musk and President Donald Trump.
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Holderin said that the “most rational” administration follows, it will take years to rebuild basic research capabilities in national universities and national laboratories – both from the point of view of employment and equipment. The United States is likely to face a weak scientific and technological workforce as a result.
“We are already witnessing some of the elderly and talented people who leave the country and go to another place – go to Canada, go to France, and go to China – where they see that they will be able to follow their skills and apply them to fruitful purposes.”
Dodge It claims that it provided taxpayers for a total of $ 170 billion as a result of discounts, with the 6th ranking of the Environmental Protection Agency to “the leaders of the agency’s efficiency”, which appears to be listed by the 10 best agencies and provided most of the funds.
Lawyers and environmental activists have been preparing to fight any policies that the Trump administration has given since the presidential elections in November.
“We have the tools to fight,” Bandar said.