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FIRST ON FOX: A handful of conservative energy and climate groups released a report outlining the top ten challenges that rocked climate change activism in 2025, as President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a mandate to unleash American energy this year.
Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has signed a series of executive orders and legislation to scale back America’s green energy efforts. Now, a group of prominent conservative energy groups are declaring 2025 as the year of the cultural departure from climate activism.
«This year has proven to be an unexpected tipping point for climate realism,» the conservative groups declared in a report shared exclusively with Fox News Digital.
The American Energy Institute, The Energy & Environment Legal Institute, Truth in Energy & Climate, The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and The Heartland Institute signed the «2025: Climate Hysteria’s Surprising Tipping Point,» outlining 2025 as a pivotal year in trading climate activism for energy production and economic realism.
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President Donald Trump spoke to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«This is the great climate tipping point the radicals never saw coming,» American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told Fox News Digital. «The world is waking up to the reality that net-zero was never achievable, never affordable, and never honest. Governments, investors, and even climate activists are abandoning the hysteria and choosing energy security, affordability, reliability, and common sense. President Trump led this shift by putting America’s energy strength first.»
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According to the United Nations, net-zero is the global effort to cut carbon emissions to «a small amount of residual emissions that can be absorbed and durably stored by nature and other carbon dioxide removal measures, leaving zero in the atmosphere.»
«As of June 2024, 107 countries, responsible for approximately 82 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, had adopted net-zero pledges either in law,» or through other policy commitments, according to the U.N.
President Barack Obama led efforts to reach the Paris Climate Agreement on Dec. 12, 2015, a nonbinding accord in which nearly 200 nations pledged to curb greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the impacts of climate change.
Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement during his first administration, while his successor, President Joe Biden, quickly rejoined and pursued policies to expand federal climate and clean energy initiatives during his four-year tenure.
After returning to office this year, Trump immediately rolled back restrictions on domestic energy production and began reversing U.S. participation in global climate commitments.
This file photo shows pump jacks operating in front of a drilling rig in an oil field in Midland, Texas. (Reuters/Nick Oxford)
Trump signed an executive order «unleashing American energy» on his first day back in office.
He also signed his marquee domestic policy legislation, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, into law on July 4. It included a series of tax provisions that unwind clean energy credits from the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act and ease federal incentives for renewable energy, while prioritizing fossil fuel development.
«2025’s ‘tipping points’ are the product of President Trump’s energy dominance agenda and 35 years of valiant work by ‘cancelled’ climate realists who knew from the start that climate alarm was a hoax,» Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and a former member of Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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The report itself outlines ten instances of shifting rhetoric from legacy media outlets and climate change activists, explaining why 2025 was the year of «climate hysteria’s surprising tipping point.»
In the first instance, the conservative signatories cite The New York Times reporting on «why global momentum on climate action is faltering, even as clean energy technology rapidly advances.»
The signatories also cited The New York Times’ reporting on the final document from the U.N. COP-30 climate conference not mentioning «fossil fuels.»
In another instance, the conservative energy groups referenced the resurgence of «climate denial» at the annual U.N. climate talks, citing another article by The Times.
«When nearly 200 nations signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, acknowledging the threat of rising global temperatures and vowing action, many hoped that the era of climate denial was finally over. Ten years later it has roared back, arguably stronger than ever,» journalists Lisa Friedman and Steven Lee Myers wrote in the article cited in the report.
More reporting from The New York Times included in the report pointed to Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., backing away from New York’s 2019 climate law and quoting her as saying, «We need to govern in reality.»
The «tipping points» also included Reuters’ reporting on ExxonMobil questioning the feasibility of net-zero efforts and The New York Times Magazine reporting that «the world has soured on climate politics.»
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Additionally, the report pointed to The Washington Post’s reporting that political priorities are shifting from climate activism to energy affordability, and The Guardian reporting that a «dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists.»
And the report cited The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board arguing that billionaire climate activist Bill Gates has reversed course on his earlier «doomsday» view of climate change.
Fox News Digital reached out to Hochul and Gates for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
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Cal State prof warns scrapping SAT in name of ‘inclusivity’ is leaving students unprepared
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A California economics professor is sounding the alarm on the «deficits in learning» she is seeing in the classroom, arguing that the decision to scrap standardized testing in the name of «inclusivity» is actually a disservice to the students it claims to help.
Cal State Long Beach professor Andrea Mays told Fox News Digital that the current cohort of college students, many of whom spent their formative middle school years in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, are arriving on campus unprepared for basic coursework.
Mays spoke to Fox News Digital about the state’s university system’s decision to scrap the SAT as a requirement for college admission as playing a large role in that and that it has led to students coming to college unprepared and dropping out at higher rates.
Mays says the drop rate is up «phenomenally» and that chairs of other departments tell her it’s widespread, with 25% of students dropping classes, with math being a key area where students are coming in underprepared.
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A teacher at Cal State Long Beach is warning of the ramifications of the state system removing the SAT requirement. (Canart7/iStock)
«I teach a class that is offered for non-economics majors,» Mays explained. «I could put on an index card exactly what math is required for my class, it’s not calculus, and they are struggling with it, they’re embarrassed, they’re demoralized, they come into my classroom, and they say, or into my office hours, and they say, I never learned this stuff, I don’t know how to calculate a percentage change.»
«I can show them, but those are the students who are actually coming to me and asking me for help. There are lots of other students who are just too embarrassed even to do that, and who just end up dropping the class.»
Mays, who recently penned an opinion piece in the Orange County Register with the headline «Bring back the SAT at CSU — or admit we are failing our own students,» says that the explanation she has gotten for the CSU system dropping the SAT is that «we want to be inclusive.»
«I am definitely for inclusivity on our campus,» Mays said. «We have a very diverse campus here. But I think it’s fraud to tell people that what we’re doing is so that we can be inclusive when really what we’re doing is we’re allowing people to enter that we know are really going to have a difficult time of it. They have no idea.»
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Graduates take part in the commencement ceremony for the College of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, California State University of Long Beach at Angel Stadium in Anaheim on Monday, May 15, 2023. (Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)
In recent years, several activist groups have railed against the SAT and standardized testing in general, including the nation’s largest teachers union, and Fox News Digital asked Mays if that narrative is behind the CSU decision not to require the SAT.
«That might be a little bit of the implication there without saying so, I’m not an expert in the recent changes in the SAT, others have done that work looking at whether you can change questions so that groups that don’t do well on certain questions, can do better on other types of questions,» Mays said.
«There’s definitely room for discussion about what kind of a standard, is it the ACT? Is it the SAT or something? The problem is that high schools are heterogeneous,» Mays said.
«Not all high schools are excellent even if they say they are. And so you’ll get students who get As in algebra two, and then they come into my class and they can’t calculate a percentage change. They can’t find the intersection between two straight lines, both of which are seventh and eighth grade math requirements. So that students are getting passed on from high school into a four-year university is a disservice to them. They get here thinking they’re wonderful and finding out that they are at the bottom of the ability distribution for math and English.»
Acting Chancellor Steve Relyea stated in 2022 that when the decision to remove the SAT and ACT was made, the goal was to «level the playing field» and provide «greater access.» The decision followed a year-long study by the Admission Advisory Council, which found that the tests provided «negligible additional value» in predicting student success compared to high school GPA.
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The system officially moved to «multi-factored admission criteria,» focusing on GPA in specific high school courses, extracurriculars, and socio-economic factors.
«Access without readiness is not opportunity,» Mays wrote in her article. «It is a disservice. If CSU is serious about student success, affordability, and equity, it must be willing to measure preparedness — and act on what it finds.»
Mays added, «Pretending preparation gaps do not exist is not equity.»
Mays told Fox News Digital that California’s robust and effective community college system is a tool ready to be utilized as an «alternative» for students who are coming out of high school, many who lost years of learning during COVID, and not prepared for college.
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«Go into the community system and take the lowest level English class you can so that you can write a sentence, you can write a paragraph, you could make an argument,» Mays said. «Take a basic math class that will transfer onto a four-year university and learn how to do the basic math that perhaps you didn’t learn when you were in middle school online.»
The California State University System did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
«There’s no reason not to use an SAT as a filter to let students know whether they’re prepared for college-level work or not,» Mays told Fox News Digital.
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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Saturday that it had carried out ten strikes against over 30 ISIS targets in Syria, in recent days as part of a joint military effort to «sustain relentless military pressure on remnants from the terrorist network.»
CENTCOM said, from Feb. 3 – 12, its forces «struck ISIS infrastructure and weapons storage targets with precision munitions delivered by fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and unmanned aircraft.»
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Recently, CENTCOM forces conducted five strikes against an ISIS communication site, critical logistics node, and weapons storage facilities in Syria between Jan. 27 and Feb. 2.
Operation Hawkeye Strike targets over 30 ISIS sites following a December ambush that killed US troops. (CENTCOM)
«Striking these targets demonstrates our continued focus and resolve for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria,» Adm. Brad Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, said in a statement at the time.
«Operating in coordination with coalition and partner forces to ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS makes America, the region and the world safer,» he added.
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On Jan. 27, President Trump told reporters he had a «great conversation with the highly respected» President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
More than 50 ISIS terrorists have been killed or captured and over 100 ISIS infrastructure targets have been struck. (CENTCOM)
«All of the things having to do with Syria in that area are working out very, very well,» said President Trump. «So we are very happy about it.»
The Operation Hawkeye Strike mission was launched in response to an ISIS «ambush» attack that left two U.S. service members and an American interpreter dead on Dec. 13, 2025, in Palmyra, Syria.
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«More than 50 ISIS terrorists have been killed or captured and over 100 ISIS infrastructure targets have been struck with hundreds of precision munitions during two months of targeted operations,» states CENTCOM.
The Operation Hawkeye Strike mission was launched in response to an ISIS «ambush» attack that left two U.S. service members and an American interpreter dead. (CENTCOM)
On Thursday, CENTCOM announced it has completed its withdrawal of American forces from al-Tanf Garrison in Syria pointing to a broader shift in U.S. posture in the region.
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«Striking these targets demonstrates our continued focus and resolve for preventing an ISIS resurgence in Syria,» said Adm. Brad Cooper. (CENTCOM)
Operation Inherent Resolve was launched in 2014 to combat ISIS with American troops maintaining a limited presence to support partner forces and prevent ISIS from returning after it was territorially defeated in 2019.
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Fox News Digital’s Ashley Carnahan and Greg Norman-Diamond contributed to this report.
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