Trump targets climate, energy, health policy on first day

On the first day of his second term, Donald J. Trump completed over 40 presidential actions. Among them were a myriad of executive orders that will have wide- reaching effects on US climate, energy, and health policy. One order withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement , a global pact to stem climate change, following up on a promise he made during his campaign . The order says the country will immediately withdraw from what Trump described during his speech at the Inauguration Day parade as the “unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip-off.” The process will in fact take at least a year. The order marks the second time that Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement. The country pulled out of the treaty in late 2020 and under President Joe Biden rejoined it in early 2021. Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris accord comes just weeks