The Paris Accord was going to cost us a trillion dollars and China nothing and Russia nothing. It was a ripoff of the United States. And I ended it because I didn't want to waste that money.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency· archivedhttps://www.epa.gov/stationary-sources-air-pollution/greenhouse-gas-standards-and-guidelines-fossil-fuel-fired-power ↗
“EPA intends to send the final action for the Carbon Pollution Standards repeal proposal to OMB early this spring.”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67684 ↗
“Total energy production in the United States increased to a new record of 107 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2025, a 3.4% increase from the previous record set in 2024.”
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency· archivedhttps://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/what-they-are-saying-epa-finalizes-affordable-clean-energy-rule ↗
“the EPA issued the final Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule – replacing the prior administration's overreaching Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a rule that restores the rule of law and empowers states to continue to reduce emissions”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67625 ↗
“DOE released 7.1 million barrels in the week ending April 24, the most released since the week ending October 7, 2022. SPR stocks are currently 397.9 million barrels.”
- White House - Executive Order 14302 (Reinvigorating the Nuclear Industrial Base)· archivedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/reinvigorating-the-nuclear-industrial-base/ ↗
“It is the policy of the United States to expedite and promote to the fullest possible extent the production and operation of nuclear energy to provide affordable, reliable, safe, and secure energy to the American people.”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43015 ↗
“Annual U.S. crude oil production reached another record level at 12.23 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2019, 1.24 million b/d, or 11%, more than 2018 levels.”
- Popular Informationhttps://popular.info/p/the-tale-of-the-tape-trump-repeatedly ↗
“Energy costs, all of it, air conditioning, heating, all of it, including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months. (Aug 19, 2024, York PA rally)”
- Rev.com — First 2024 Presidential Debate transcript (CNN, June 27 2024)https://www.rev.com/transcripts/first-2024-presidential-debate-on-cnn ↗
“The Paris Accord was going to cost us a trillion dollars and China nothing and Russia nothing. It was a ripoff of the United States.”
“Gasoline prices jumped 40.5% from a year earlier.”
“the average retail gasoline price — the price drivers pay at the pump — is down nearly 10%”
- American Presidency Project — 2024 Republican Party Platform· archivedhttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-party-platform ↗
“We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL and we will become Energy Independent, and even Dominant again.”
- LiveNOW from FOX (RNC 2024 speech transcript)https://www.livenowfox.com/news/donald-trump-rnc-speech-transcript-watch-full-video ↗
“I will end the electric vehicle mandate on day one, thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration.”
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency· archivedhttps://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-zeldin-celebrates-president-trump-officially-ending-californias ↗
“President Donald J. Trump signed into law three Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions disapproving California's vehicle emission waivers.”
- American Presidency Project — 2016 Republican Party Platformhttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2016-republican-party-platform ↗
“We reject the agendas of both the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, which represent only the personal commitments of their signatories.”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/ ↗
“the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord”
- p2016.org (Trump Contract with the American Voter, Gettysburg speech archive)· archivedhttps://p2016.org/trump/trump102216sp.html ↗
“lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars' worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.”
- U.S. Department of the Interior· archivedhttps://www.doi.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/so_3348_coal_moratorium.pdf ↗
“With the revocation of Secretary's Order 3338, BLM is directed to process coal lease applications and modifications expeditiously”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-promoting-energy-independence-economic-growth/ ↗
“lift any and all moratoria on Federal land coal leasing activities”
- p2016.org (Trump campaign speech archive)· archivedhttps://www.p2016.org/trump/trump052616sp.html ↗
“We're going to save the coal industry and other industries threatened by Hillary Clinton's extremist agenda.”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48696 ↗
“U.S. coal production totaled 535 million short tons (MMst) in 2020, a 24% decrease from the 706 MMst mined in 2019 and the lowest level of coal production in the United States in any year since 1965”
“The United States will formally leave the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, no matter who wins the election.”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67345 ↗
“In 2025, more natural gas was produced in the Appalachia region of the Northeast than in any other U.S. region, accounting for 31%, or 36.6 Bcf/d, of marketed natural gas production.”
- WorkBoat (quoting Bloomberg report on Wildwood NJ rally, May 11 2024)https://www.workboat.com/wind/trump-promises-to-block-offshore-wind-on-day-one-if-elected ↗
“We are going to make sure that ends on day one, I'm going to write it out as an executive order.”
“A federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order blocking wind energy projects, calling it unlawful.”
- U.S. Government Publishing Office (Public Law 119-21)· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm ↗
“Sec. 60001. Rescission of funding for clean heavy-duty vehicles.”
“Congress passed President Trump's sweeping budget package, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which phases out the Biden-era clean energy subsidies earlier than originally outlined in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).”
- ABC News — Full text of Trump's 2016 RNC acceptance speechhttps://abcnews.com/Politics/full-text-donald-trumps-2016-republican-national-convention/story?id=40786529 ↗
“We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy. This will produce more than 20 trillion dollars in job creating economic activity over the next four decades.”
- govinfo.gov, Public Law 115-5· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ5/html/PLAW-115publ5.htm ↗
“Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement of the Department of the Interior relating to the 'Stream Protection Rule'”
- American Presidency Project — Republican Candidates Debate, Detroit, Michigan· archivedhttps://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-candidates-debate-detroit-michigan ↗
“Department of Environmental Protection. We are going to get rid of it in almost every form. We're going to have little tidbits left but we're going to take a tremendous amount out.”
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency· archivedhttps://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-announces-reduction-force-reorganization-efforts-save-taxpayers-nearly-three ↗
“EPA will have a workforce of 12,448 employees”
- Federal Register (govinfo.gov), Executive Order 14260· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-14/html/2025-06379.htm ↗
“funds to collect carbon penalties or carbon taxes”
- E&E News (Politico)https://www.eenews.net/articles/5-things-to-know-about-bidens-1b-climate-payment/ ↗
“The United States remains in arrears from almost a decade ago, when former President Barack Obama promised to give the fund $3 billion.”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-unleashing-american-energy-event/ ↗
“With these incredible resources, my administration will seek not only American energy independence that we've been looking for so long, but American energy dominance.”
- Federal Register (via GovInfo)· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-02-10/html/2017-02740.htm ↗
“The Department has received a re-submitted application from TransCanada and will conduct a review of the application in accordance with the Presidential Memorandum and any other applicable requirements.”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=43395 ↗
“Last year was the first year when the U.S. exported more energy than it imported since 1952”
- PolitiFact MAGA Meter (cites Financial Times as primary source)https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1685/fill-up-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve-immediatel/article/3191/ ↗
“We have to fill up the strategic reserves immediately.”
“President Trump ordered the release of 172 million barrels of oil from the United States' Strategic Petroleum Reserve on Wednesday, after oil prices rocketed to their highest levels in years amid the U.S.'s war with Iran.”
- PBS News (Associated Press)https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/keystone-pipeline-nixed-after-biden-stands-firm-on-permit ↗
“The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline pulled the plug on the contentious project Wednesday after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office.”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-permit/ ↗
“I hereby grant permission, subject to the conditions herein set forth, to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P.”
- Office of Management and Budget (reginfo.gov)· archivedhttps://www.reginfo.gov/public/pdf/eo13771/EO_13771_Final_Accounting_for_Fiscal_Year_2020.pdf ↗
“Agencies issued 538 deregulatory actions and 97 significant regulatory actions from 2017-2020.”
- Fox News (State College PA rally, Oct 26 2024)https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vows-pennsylvania-rally-slash-energy-costs-lift-lng-pause-frack ↗
“Starting on day one of my new administration, I will end Kamala Harris' war on Pennsylvania energy. And we will frack, frack, frack.”
- PBS News (Associated Press)https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/epa-eliminates-research-and-development-office-as-it-begins-thousands-of-layoffs ↗
“Total staffing at EPA will go down to 12,448, a reduction of more than 3,700 employees, or nearly 23%, from staffing levels in January when Trump took office.”
- PolitiFact MAGA Meter (leads to primary source at E&E News/Politico Pro, Jan 29 2024)https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/maga-meter-tracking-donald-trumps-2024-promises/promise/1682/approve-liquefied-natural-gas-terminals/article/3141/ ↗
“will approve the export terminals on my very first day back.”
“The United States on Wednesday formally left the Paris Agreement, a global pact forged five years ago to avert the threat of catastrophic climate change.”
- Singju Post (RNC 2024 full transcript)https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-donald-trumps-speech-at-rnc-2024/ ↗
“I will END the Electric Vehicle Mandate on Day One, thereby saving the U.S. auto industry from complete obliteration, and saving U.S. customers thousands of dollars per car.”
- Singju Post (Economic Club of New York speech transcript, Sept 5 2024)https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-trump-speaks-at-the-economic-club-of-new-york/?singlepage=1 ↗
“My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months.”
- U.S. Department of Energy· archivedhttps://www.energy.gov/articles/us-department-energy-reverses-biden-lng-pause-restores-trump-energy-dominance-agenda ↗
“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), effective today, is ending the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pause and returning to regular order”
- White House (Presidential Memorandum, Jan. 20, 2025)· archivedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/temporary-withdrawal-of-all-areas-on-the-outer-continental-shelf-from-offshore-wind-leasing-and-review-of-the-federal-governments-leasing-and-permitting-practices-for-wind-projects/ ↗
“I hereby withdraw from disposition for wind energy leasing all areas within the Offshore Continental Shelf (OCS)”
- White House - Executive Order 14154· archivedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-american-energy/ ↗
“to eliminate the 'electric vehicle (EV) mandate' and promote true consumer choice, which is essential for economic growth and innovation, by removing regulatory barriers to motor vehicle access”
- Federal Register (via GovInfo)· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-30/html/2017-02035.htm ↗
“I hereby invite TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. (TransCanada), to promptly re-submit its application to the Department of State for a Presidential permit for the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline.”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-reducing-regulation-controlling-regulatory-costs/ ↗
“whenever an executive department or agency (agency) publicly proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least two existing regulations to be repealed”
- Federal Register (govinfo.gov), Presidential Permit of March 29, 2019· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-04-03/html/2019-06654.htm ↗
“I hereby grant permission, subject to the conditions herein set forth, to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. to construct, connect, operate, and maintain pipeline facilities”
- Federal Register (via GovInfo)· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-22/html/2019-20550.htm ↗
“are publishing a final rule to repeal the 2015 Clean Water Rule”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-announces-national-security-strategy-advance-americas-interests/ ↗
“America will use its energy dominance to ensure international markets remain open, and that the benefits of diversification and energy access promote economic and national security.”
- Trump White House Archives — Putting Coal Country Back to Work· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/president-trump-putting-coal-country-back-work/ ↗
“I will rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration.”
- Green Climate Fund (official)· archivedhttps://www.greenclimate.fund/news/green-climate-fund-welcomes-us-contribution-usd-1-billion ↗
“The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has announced a contribution of USD 1 billion to the Green Climate Fund.”
- Federal Register (govinfo.gov), Executive Order 13783· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-03-31/html/2017-06576.htm ↗
“The heads of agencies shall review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources”
- U.S. Energy Information Administration· archivedhttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php ↗
“In 2020, the United States became a net exporter of petroleum for the first time since at least 1949.”
- White House (archived)· archivedhttps://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-regarding-construction-keystone-xl-pipeline/ ↗
“I hereby invite TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P. (TransCanada), to promptly re-submit its application to the Department of State for a Presidential permit for the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline.”
- Federal Register (govinfo.gov), Executive Order 13990· archivedhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-01-25/html/2021-01765.htm ↗
“The Permit is hereby revoked in accordance with Article 1(1) of the Permit.”
- The White House· archivedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-american-energy-from-state-overreach/ ↗
“The Attorney General will prioritize taking action against laws and policies purporting to address 'climate change' policies”
- The White House· archivedhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/ ↗
“It is the policy of the United States that coal is essential to our national and economic security.”
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency· archivedhttps://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/final-rule-rescission-greenhouse-gas-endangerment ↗
“EPA also finalized the repeal of all subsequent GHG emission standards from its regulations for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles and engines.”
- U.S. Department of Energy· archivedhttps://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-wright-issues-first-lng-export-approval-commonwealth-lng ↗
“the first major U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to receive an export authorization for non-free trade agreement (FTA) countries since President Trump and the Department of Energy lifted the Biden-Harris administration's damaging freeze”