 So I was very public about saying, hey, these communities are at risk, the threat is growing, and these are Americans who could become refugees in our own country. But shortly after President Trump took office in 2017, Clement and others on his team were reassigned. His new job focused on oil and gas drilling on public lands. The effort to protect those Alaskan communities was gutted as part of a government-wide effort to stop working on climate change.