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Arnold Schwarzenegger has a message for environmentalists who despair at the the approach of President Donald Trump's administration: "Stop whining and get to work." The new U.S. administration has taken an ax to Biden-era environmental ambitions, rolled back landmark regulations, withdrawn climate project funding and instead bolstered support for oil and gas production. The former Republican governor of California has devoted time to environmental causes since leaving political office in 2011. On Tuesday at the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, Schwarzenegger pointed to examples of local and regional governments and companies taking action and argued 70% of pollution is reduced at the local or state level.