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In his first six months back in the Oval Office, President Trump rolled back decades of U.S. climate policy.

So far, he scaled back regulations that helped keep our air and water clean, delayed critical protections for endangered species,

withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement for a second time, and cut staffing and federal spending on critical environmental agencies and

programs, among other changes. Trump's commitment to increase oil and gas production will escalate

the effects we're already seeing from global warming as humans continue to burn fossil fuels.

So what changes to U.S. environmental

policy could have the greatest impact on our fight to curb climate change? And how could these

policy changes affect your life? We get into it with our panel after this short break. I'm Jen

White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. Stay with us. We've got a lot to get into.

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Joining us now is Andrew Friedman. He's a senior reporter with CNN, climate, and weather. Andrew,

thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Also with us is Nicholas Cousnets. He's a climate reporter

for Inside Climate News. Nicholas, welcome back.

Hi, thank you. And Emily Pontecorvo, a staff writer at HeatMap News. Emily, great to have you.

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

So we're going to dive into specific policy measures, but I'd like to briefly hear from each of you.

How you think Trump's approach to environmental and climate policy differ from his first term in office this second time around? Andrew?

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