How to Save the Environment from Trump and Project 2025

Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In his first term, Donald Trump pulled out of the global Paris Climate Accords and rolled back over 100 regulations impacting the safety of our air, water, and environment at large. As we prepare for Trump’s second term, Stacey Abrams speaks to Tik Root, Senior Staff Writer at Grist, about what protections and milestones are most at risk, which elements of the Inflation Reduction Act have bipartisan appeal, and how much Congress and the courts could play a role in slowing Trump’s fossil fuel agenda. They also discuss actionable ways that individuals can monitor their environmental safety and climate impact within their communities and homes.

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Learn & Do More:

Read Tik and his colleagues’ climate reporting at Grist.org
Do research to identify climate and environmental issues that are impacting your community
Look out for incentives like tax rebates to reduce your energy costs and upgrade your appliances

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0:00.0	Welcome to Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams from Cricket Media.
0:11.5	I'm your host, Stacey Abrams.
0:13.9	Welcome back to our show.
0:16.0	I hope everyone had a good holiday season.
0:18.1	But now it's time to get back to work because we are mere weeks away
0:21.7	from Trump's inauguration. My niece, Faith, who many of you know helped me launch Assembly
0:26.4	required, was home from her first semester in college. We spent more time catching up on Silo
0:32.6	and Cross, both are really good shows, than talking politics, but she did share how she was adjusting
0:39.2	after the election. Namely, we talked about how to process what she was hearing, about the
0:45.4	appointments, about deportations, about what the real reach of the presidency is. Look, they both
0:53.0	have about four years, Faith and Trump. The question is, what will he do with his
0:57.7	and how will it affect hers? For all of us, the specter of the unknown is not just terrifying,
1:06.5	it's paralyzing, and it's enraging that someone else might determine our destiny.
1:13.2	But like I told Faith, he has some power, but no one has all of the power.
1:18.7	Our job is to pool what we've got and see what we can make happen.
1:23.2	One of the places where the unknown meets shared power is how we can prepare for what will happen on the environment.
1:30.4	It's far from the only area where the outgoing and incoming presidents have distinctly opposite visions,
1:36.6	but it is definitely one of the most consequential.
1:40.0	Just as a quick reminder, in his first term, Trump pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accords.
1:45.8	He rolled back over 100 environmental regulations domestically.
1:50.1	He is also consistently called climate change a hoax.
1:54.2	President Biden passed the largest piece of climate legislation in history through the
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