An executive order signed by President Donald Trump this week specifically called out New York and Vermont’s efforts to fine companies that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.”That’s a really troubling executive order,” said Robb Kidd, conservation program manager of the Sierra Club. Kidd said the executive order signed by the president is an attack on Vermont’s values. “Vermonters know firsthand that climate change is real. We see the impacts of the massive flooding we seem to keep getting,” Kidd said. “We see the evolving weather patterns impacting our farming and agricultural practices. It’s impacting the ski industry. It’s impacting our whole general tourist industry.”The executive order said, in part, New York and Vermont’s efforts to “extort” energy companies for their roles in climate change weaken national security and drive up costs. Paul Burns, the executive director of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group, told NBC5 this is unlike anything they’ve seen from other presidents. “We’ve never seen anything really like this. Any administration, regardless of party, we haven’t seen this kind of attack and posture against states and against people, in the way that this administration is,” Burns said. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark said the state doesn’t have to change anything it’s currently doing. “This is an executive order, like many, in that it actually doesn’t do anything,” Clark said. “What we have seen repeatedly is basically emails or memos to a subordinate or an agency head in the form of an executive order saying, ‘Can you look into this and give me a report in 60 days?’ Or something like that. But it actually doesn’t have any teeth.”Despite the executive order, the Sierra Club and VPIRG are going ahead, business as usual. “The law was very carefully written to withstand this kind of challenge,” said Burns. “It’s not a huge shock that the president would side with the industry and against Vermonters, in a case like this. But I don’t think it really changes the dynamics of how we move forward.”Attorney General Clark said the state will reassess things in 60 days when the report requested by the president is completed. But for now, things aren’t changing in Vermont.