From The New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernesey and this is The Daily.
Among the many plans that Donald Trump laid out on his first day as president was a directive to abandon the shift toward clean energy and double down on oil.
Today,
my colleague Coral Davenport on whether Trump can pull it off and what it would mean for the country if he did.
It's Thursday, January 23rd.
So Coral,
we're taking a close look this week at the most important parts of Trump's agenda so far.
He laid them out with a whole series of executive orders on the first day of his presidency.
For Wednesday show, we looked at measures related to immigration,
but today we wanted to look at his efforts on energy policy,
which is obviously hugely important for the US economy,
but also for the climate.
You are digging into this in your reporting.
Explain what Trump did this week.
So within hours of inauguration,
Trump signed this flurry of executive orders touching all kinds of pieces of policy.
There were about six executive orders specifically related to energy,
but within them,
some of those orders had more than a dozen different policies.
And if you look at all of these added up together,