California Gov. Gavin Newsom pleaded with world leaders attending the Munich Security Conference in Germany to imagine the United States without Donald Trump as president in regard to the country’s ‘climate change’ policies.

“I hope if there is nothing else I communicate today: Donald Trump is temporary. He’ll be gone in three years,” Newsom said.

“California is a stable and reliable partner in this space. And it’s important for folks to understand the temporary nature of this current administration in relationship to the issue of climate change and climate policy,” he continued.

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The Obama and Biden Admins hoarded themselves an absurd amount of power off a very creative and totally improper interpretation of the Clean Air Act. The Trump EPA is following the best reading of the law, which is why we repealed the 2009 Endangerment Finding, ALL Greenhouse Gas… pic.twitter.com/n5c5RsnN5r

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 13, 2026

NBC News explained further:

The endangerment finding underpinned the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas pollution from vehicles and power plants and to mandate that companies report their emissions. It required the federal government to take action on climate under the Clean Air Act.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA had the authority to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases and acknowledged that harms associated with climate change are “serious and well recognized,” which led to the creation of the endangerment finding two years later.

The White House and the EPA have said repealing the finding would be “the largest deregulatory action in American history.”

It’s the Trump administration’s most significant attempt yet to diminish efforts to address climate change. The U.S. officially left the 2015 Paris Agreement for the second time last month and is also expected to withdraw from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, leaving America without a meaningful voice in global climate talks.

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Trump, who has called climate change a “con job,” canceled nearly $8 billion in funding for clean energy projects in October (though a judge later ruled that some of those terminations were unlawful). And the Energy Department announced Wednesday that it will spend $175 million to extend the lives of six coal plants — the latest in a series of moves to prop up coal.