★ Government Action
Trump revokes twelve Biden climate and environmental orders
Climate Policy RollbackDeregulationFossil Fuel Deregulation
Filed January 2025
★ The Brief
What happened
The January 20, 2025 order revoked twelve Biden executive orders issued from 2021 to 2023, including the clean-cars target, Inflation Reduction Act energy implementation, and climate-financial-risk directives, abolished the offices they created, and shut down the American Climate Corps green-jobs program.
Who enabled it
Who benefits
As part of the 'Unleashing American Energy' executive order signed January 20, 2025, President Trump revoked twelve executive orders issued by the Biden administration between January 2021 and April 2023. The revoked orders covered a broad range of climate and environmental policies, including commitments to tackle the climate crisis at home and abroad (EO 14008), climate-related financial risk (EO 14030), clean cars and trucks (EO 14037), federal sustainability (EO 14057), forest protection (EO 14072), implementation of Inflation Reduction Act energy provisions (EO 14082), and environmental justice (EO 14096), among others. All offices established by those orders were also abolished.
Actors
Who pushed it · 1Who initiated, paid, or pushed the action.
Donald TrumpRevoked twelve Biden-era executive orders on climate, clean energy, and environmental justice and abolished all offices established by those orders.
Sector-wide beneficiaries
- Fossil Fuels
Repeals Biden-era clean-energy and clean-car policies, removing the regulatory support that favored fossil fuels' competitors.
Sector-aligned organizations that have paid into Trump’s orbit:
Individuals from these organizations who have personally paid into Trump’s orbit:
Further reading
- ★ Government ActionFebruary 2025Trump creates National Energy Dominance Council chaired by Burgum
- ★ Government ActionJanuary 2025Trump order ends EV mandates and state emissions waivers
- ★ Government ActionJanuary 2025Trump order directs agencies to rescind energy-burdening regulations
- ★ Government ActionOctober 2025Interior reopens 1.56-million-acre ANWR Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing
- ★ Government ActionJanuary 2025Trump restarts stalled natural gas export approvals paused by Biden
- ★ Government ActionJanuary 2025Trump order directs EPA to reconsider 2009 endangerment finding