Among the many other big moves taken by the Trump administration, boosting fossil fuel development has been a priority.

In a series of actions, President Trump is following through on his promise not just to ramp up oil and gas production,

but to sharply curtail any effort to deal with climate change.

William Brangham has been tracking this and joins us now.

So, William, we've already seen major action these first two weeks on the Trump administration's energy policy.

What are the biggest moves so far?

He has been going gangbusters, as my mom used to put it, on many fronts, myriad ways he's been doing this.

He's been doing this through federal government agencies like the EPA,

through his appointments, his cabinet secretaries, that energy and interior, and through executive

orders. A couple of examples. On day one, he declared an energy emergency, which basically

tells every federal agency to do everything they can to ramp up oil and gas production

on federal lands.

Trump has also pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord, the global treaty to bring down emissions.

He's back out of that again. He's targeted Biden's push for electric vehicles. I mean, the list

goes on and on. There's just been a lot of efforts to go on this front.

And we know that with President Trump personnel is so often policy, who are the people in his

administration who are backing him up on this?

That's right. The argument that his cabinet secretaries and that he has been making all along

is that the Biden administration held back domestic energy production.

And we should say oil and gas production in America is at record highs right now.

And it became so under the Biden administration.

But all of Trump's cabinet picks argue that Biden didn't do enough on that front and they promised to do differently.

...