Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.

The White House announces a "national energy emergency" to reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas.

President Trump signed an executive order during his first hours in office to begin the process of pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement — the second time he has done so. Why it matters: The U.

The president’s executive order freezes all funding related to the 2015 global climate treaty and also rescinds the nation’s International Climate Finance plan.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement once again. What is the Paris Agreement? How can a country withdraw from it? Also, go 'Beyond the Nugget' to learn about Conference of Parties and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Behind Donald Trump's "Drill baby, drill!" rhetoric, there is a wider political message in his ordering of the US to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, both to those who supported him, and to the wider world.

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump once again withdrew the United States from the Paris climate deal on Monday (Jan 20), removing the world's biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade.

The United Nations has expressed regret over the US President Donald Trump’s executive orders ending US membership of the World Health Organization and its adherence to the Paris Climate Agreement. Talking to journalists in Geneva, WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic hoped that the United States of America will reconsider its decisions.

A renewed withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and avowedly pro-fossil fuel policies will heat the climate and harm people around the world for decades to come, experts warn.

Even presidential powers have their limits - and in some cases, Trump faces hurdles before his plans can become reality.

When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.