{"id":38354,"date":"2025-04-09T17:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/trump-takes-aim-at-city-and-state-climate-laws-in-executive-order\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T17:33:23","slug":"trump-takes-aim-at-city-and-state-climate-laws-in-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/trump-takes-aim-at-city-and-state-climate-laws-in-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountable<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/09\/donald-trump-tariffs-full-effect-executive-orders-coal-us-politics-latest-updates-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> is taking aim and city- and state-led <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fossil-fuels\">fossil fuel<\/a> accountability efforts, which have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/18\/trump-climate-accountability\">hailed<\/a> as a last source of hope for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate<\/a> amid the president\u2019s ferociously anti-environment agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/04\/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach\/\">executive order<\/a>, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to \u201cstop the enforcement\u201d of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/09\/trump-climate-state-laws-executive-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President orders justice department to stop enforcement of critical policies holding fossil fuel companies accountable US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president\u2019s ferociously anti-environment agenda. In a &#8230; <a title=\"Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/trump-takes-aim-at-city-and-state-climate-laws-in-executive-order\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}