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How Trump could undo portions of Biden's climate legacy

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President Biden 's stepped-up pace of climate-related announcements will likely mean little once Trump is inaugurated and the Republican -led Congress is seated in January .

The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to kill any regulation issued by a federal agency in the last 60 legislative days with a simple majority vote in the House and Senate .

And these grants are also far from the most expensive line-items in the climate law. The Energy Department announced almost $18 million for projects that bolster recycling programs, launch residential energy efficiency rebate programs and expand bike lanes and pedestrian walkways, among other projects. The Agriculture Department put $256 million toward the Rural Energy Program for America to expand use of wind, solar, geothermal and small hydropower energy. These kinds of projects and the grants are likely to be safe through Trump 's second term..