{"id":2284369,"date":"2024-06-27T04:40:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debate-preview-heres-how-trump-will-likely-go-after-biden-on-climate-and-energy-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T04:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:45:24","slug":"debate-preview-heres-how-trump-will-likely-go-after-biden-on-climate-and-energy-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debate-preview-heres-how-trump-will-likely-go-after-biden-on-climate-and-energy-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate preview: Here\u2019s how Trump will likely go after Biden on climate and energy &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdebate-preview-heres-how-trump-will-likely-go-after-biden-on-climate-and-energy-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2284369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In the first presidential debate of 2024, former President Donald Trump is expected to\u2062 challenge \u200dPresident Joe Biden\u2019s climate and energy\u200d policies, particularly focusing on the implications of\u2062 these policies for U.S.\u2063 national security and energy\u2062 dominance. Trump plans\u200c to criticize Biden for advancing\u200c clean \u2064energy initiatives at the expense of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/green-infrastructure-backers-stand-to-profit-from-govt-spending-boost\/\" title=\"\u2018Green Infrastructure\u2019 Backers Stand to Profit From Gov\u2019t Spending Boost\">fossil fuel production<\/a>, which, he\u2062 argues, has made the U.S. vulnerable to foreign adversaries like \u2063Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate, Trump is likely to highlight Biden&#8217;s controversial decision to \u200crelease 180 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve\u200c following \u200cRussia&#8217;s invasion of\u2064 Ukraine, a move that significantly depleted the reserve. Additionally, Trump aims to attack \u200dBiden for restrictive measures on oil\u200d and gas\u200b drilling, \u200bparticularly\u2062 on significant areas like Alaska\u2019s \u200cNorth Slope.<\/p>\n<p>A senior\u200c figure \u200cfrom the American Energy Alliance has\u200b noted that Biden&#8217;s administration \u2063has taken over 220\u2063 actions that restrict energy production, impacting America&#8217;s energy security. Trump is also expected \u2062to\u2063 criticize the Inflation Reduction Act, a Democratic initiative\u200c that allocates $369 billion to climate \u2062and clean energy, which includes consumer\u200c tax credits for electric vehicles \u200band\u200b tax \u200bcredits\u2064 for\u200b renewable energy projects.\u200c This legislation has been criticized for favoritism\u200d in energy policy and its high cost to \u2064taxpayers, now projected to be significantly higher than initially estimated.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump is expected to go after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> for many of his climate and energy policies\u00a0Thursday night in Atlanta as they square off in the first 2024 presidential debate. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous debates, including those between Trump and Biden in 2020, Thursday\u2019s showdown is unique because both men onstage will have served almost a full first term in office, giving each other plenty of ammo.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is expected to argue that Biden\u2019s efforts to boost clean energy and limit carbon emissions have weakened U.S. national security and energy dominance, leaving the nation vulnerable to adversaries like Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think these two candidates could be any further and distinctly different on energy issues than they have been,\u201d Dan Kish, the senior vice president of the American Energy Alliance, a conservative-aligned advocacy group, told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will likely focus primarily on restoring fossil fuel production and exporting energy to allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think first and foremost, you\u2019re going to see Trump hit hard about the decline in America\u2019s standing across the world,\u201d Brigham McCown, a senior fellow and director of the Initiative on American Energy Security at the Hudson Institute, told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>in an interview<em>. <\/em>\u201cThat both in the international sphere as well as the domestic economy, we have gone backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Trump could take aim at Biden\u2019s controversial decision to sell off 180 million barrels of oil from the U.S. emergency stockpile following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine \u2014 a decision that drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest point in 40 years. The administration has since struggled to refill the reserve under the terms of its original buyback plan. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has vowed to approve more oil and gas drilling permits. Trump could also use his time to go after Biden\u2019s decision to restrict and ban oil and gas drilling in some parts of the country, including on millions of acres in Alaska\u2019s North Slope, Kish told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The president of the American Energy Alliance authored a report this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/fossil-fuels\/225-ways-the-biden-administration-and-democrats-have-made-it-harder-to-produce-oil-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"outlining\">outlining<\/a> more than 220 actions that the group says Biden and his allies have taken in the past three years to restrict energy production, which Kish told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> illustrates the wide range of activities that Trump could seize on in the debate to go after Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our perspective,\u201d Kish said, Biden\u2019s actions have had \u201ca significant reduction on energy security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most likely, Trump will attack Biden over the Inflation Reduction Act, the Democratic-led legislation that allocates $369 billion to climate and clean energy spending at the commercial and consumer level.<\/p>\n<p>The Inflation Reduction Act, which narrowly cleared both chambers in August 2022 before being signed into law, includes up to $7,500 in consumer tax credits for certain electric vehicles to help incentivize widespread consumer adoption (which Treasury officials <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy2403#:~:text=This%20discount%20is%20increasing%20consumer,the%20lifetime%20of%20a%20vehicle.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"estimate\">estimate<\/a> has already saved consumers a total of $1 billion). It also includes generous tax credits to help subsidize the cost of renewable energy projects, such as offshore wind, to attract new investments.<\/p>\n<p>McCown said he expects Trump to go after the Biden administration for picking \u201cwinners and losers\u201d when it comes to prioritizing clean and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Budget Office has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-on-energy\/2845283\/daily-on-energy-why-the-cost-projection-for-ira-clean-energy-credits-was-revised-up-by-428b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"revised\">revised<\/a> its original $369 billion price tag for the Inflation Reduction Act, estimating that the law\u2019s clean energy provisions will cost taxpayers roughly $428 billion more than originally projected over the next 10 years. (Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2574308\/price-tag-for-biden-signature-climate-law-balloons-to-multiple-of-initial-estimates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"revised\">report<\/a> from Penn Wharton projected that incentives for electric cars and trucks alone would add around $393 billion in costs in the next 10 years.)<\/p>\n<p>If elected to a second term, Trump could most certainly tighten the Treasury Department criteria that determine consumer eligibility for the EV tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also vowed to roll back the stringent tailpipe emissions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-development-biden-plans-to-roll-back-rule-designed-to-juice-ev-push-on-country\/\" title=\"Biden's surprising move: reversing rule aimed at boosting electric vehicle adoption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-becomes-the-first-millennial-confirmed-to-a-cabinet-position\/\" title=\"Buttigieg Becomes The First Millennial Confirmed To A Cabinet Position\">fuel economy standards<\/a> set<\/a> by the administration, which he could hit Biden with Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is targeting an 8% reduction in tailpipe pollution beginning in model years 2024 and 2025, before increasing to a 10% reduction beginning in 2026, a far more stringent standard than Trump, who in 2020 had pared down the fuel economy standards from the 5% reduction set under former President Barack Obama just 1.5% beginning in 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-on-energy\/2923082\/daily-on-energy-taking-a-closer-look-at-trumps-new-plans-for-the-auto-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>previewed<\/a> these plans several times, including in his \u201cPlan to Save America\u2019s Auto Industry\u201d earlier this year, which outlined his push to \u201cterminate\u201d what he described as Biden\u2019s assault on the U.S. manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n<p>That plan called for undoing what he described as the administration\u2019s \u201cinsane\u201d fuel economy standards for vehicles and creating a special team of \u201cwarrior lawyers\u201d to \u201cidentify and immediately eliminate every unnecessary regulation\u201d harming the auto industry, though the campaign has not elaborated on what that means.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump plans to criticize President Joe Biden&#8217;s climate and energy policies during their first 2024 presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday night. 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