During the campaign, President-elect Trump said he wants to get rid of virtually all of the Biden administration's climate change regulations intended to cut carbon emissions and to move away from fossil fuels.

He's also called for the repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act, President Biden's signature climate law.

Even as the incoming administration's team drafts executive orders for the new president

to sign on inauguration day, officials in the current administration are trying to lock in their

policies. Matthew Daley covers climate, environment, and energy policy for the Associated Press.

Matthew, from the first administration, what can we expect on climate change and environment?

Well, I think that there's a lot to expect. Basically, everything that President Biden has tried to do,

President Trump is going to try to undo. And you mentioned the Inflation Reduction Act, which is a terribly named law,

but it's a very wide- wide reaching law that basically tries to spend

hundreds of billions of dollars to promote clean energy and has a lot of tax credits in there.

And so I think the new president wants to repeal them.

I think he may have some trouble, though, because not only, you know, is it in law right now,

but a lot of the projects that are being developed for clean energy

are in Republican-held districts. And even if he has both chambers, the House and the Senate,

you're going to have members wanting to protect their homes. Right. Interestingly, a group of

Republicans wrote the House Speaker, Mike Johnson, a letter saying, hey, leave this alone. We need

these projects. There's a big solar plant in

Georgia. There's battery plants in Kentucky. There's all over the country. There's a lot of clean

manufacturing jobs. And I think that that kind of for jobs is something that everybody wants to

support. Early on in the campaign, especially when he was campaigning in Michigan, Mr. Trump would

criticize the move toward electric vehicles away from internal combustion. But now he's got

Elon Musk on his side, the owner of Tesla. Is that going to change things, do you think?

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