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Feeling That Trump Will ‘Say Anything,’ Europe Is Less Restrained, Too
The Europeans have stopped trying to paper over their differences with President Trump and the United States. Traditionally respectful of American leadership and mindful of the country’s crucial role in European defense and global trade, European leaders normally repress or soften their criticism of United States presidents. Europeans were generally not happy…
Emissions: Staying cool makes Earth warmer. There’s help for that
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Making better machines for keeping you cool could be the best way to prevent the planet from getting too hot, researchers have found…
GOP Gamble: Avoiding Climate Remedies While Sidestepping the Legal Fallout of Inaction
Having ruled in 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions associated with human activity were air pollutants that could be regulated under the federal Clean Air Act, the Supreme Court directed the Environmental Protection Agency to determine if such pollution…
Wind Industry Tacks as Trump Shifts the Political Climate
Three days after Energy Secretary Rick Perry directed his staff to find ways to give a boost to coal and nuclear power, the rival wind industry kicked its lobbying response into action. The American Wind Energy Association would tap allies in Congress willing to weigh in with Perry…
CARBON TAX: Conservative climate plan could shield oil companies
[E&E subscription required to read article.] A provision in a high-profile carbon tax plan could insulate companies that release greenhouse gases from lawsuits…
WESTERN WATER: Dams: ‘Relics’ or vital to an ‘all of the above’ fix?
[E&E subscription required to read article.] As the West struggles with climate change, drought and rapid growth, talk about the region’s water crisis boils down to a complicated question: Build more dams and infrastructure, or ramp up conservation?…
EPA: Pruitt rebuffs G-7 on climate
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The Trump administration bucked Group of Seven allies today, refusing to endorse climate action in a statement on environmental priorities…
Trump’s reasons for leaving the Paris climate agreement just don’t add up
President Trump railed against the Paris climate agreement in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, but it was hard to reconcile his description of the climate accord with the real one. “As of today, the United States will cease all implementation of the nonbinding Paris accord…
The Paris agreement: Whither the world after America’s retreat?
IN THE end, not even the pope’s pleas were enough to persuade Donald Trump to go back on his campaign promise to leave the Paris agreement. The arguments of his advisers, such as strategist Steve Bannon and the head of America’s Environmental Protection Agency…
PARIS AGREEMENT: Spicer: Trump wants a ‘fair deal’ on climate
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Did the White House drop a hint yesterday about the president’s direction on the Paris Agreement?…
Australia urges Trump not to quit Paris climate pact
The Turnbull government has told senior members of the Trump administration that Australia is committed to the Paris climate change agreement and has signalled to the White House it wants the US President not to quit the international pact…
Paris Signatories ponder future of climate change accord without US
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Whatever Trump Decides on Climate Pact, Rest of World Likely to Move Forward
Donald Trump made it clear on the campaign trail that he would not honor the commitment made by the U.S. in the Paris Agreement. The pact, adopted in December 2015 at the Paris climate conference known as COP21, is the world’s first legally binding global deal to combat climate change…
Donald Trump’s Paris climate change call will define his presidency
Donald Trump’s imminent decision to either quit or remain in the Paris international climate change deal will be his most defining foreign policy call so far. It will demonstrate the extent of the US President’s populist nationalism or pragmatic realism…
Can the Paris Climate Deal Survive a Trump-Style Renegotiation?
As President Trump ponders whether the United States should stay in or leave the Paris climate agreement, many of his closest allies and advisers have been urging him to keep the country in but “renegotiate” the deal to better reflect his energy policies…
Budget takeaways: A few more nuggets from Trump’s first detailed budget proposal
“With at least a half dozen key GOP Senators already pushing for full ARPA-E funding, maybe the Administration just didn’t want to waste the ink,” Paul Bledsoe, a senior fellow on energy at the Progressive Policy Institute who works with ARPA-E backers, tells Axios…
DOE: Key Republican senator bucks Trump cuts
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the powerful Republican chairwoman of the committee with jurisdiction over the Department of Energy, went to bat today for a number of the agency’s programs facing steep cuts…
In the Trump White House, the momentum has turned against the Paris climate agreement
Foes of the Paris climate agreement have gained the upper hand in the ongoing debate at the White House over whether the United States should pull out of the historic pact, although President Trump has yet to make a final decision, according to participants…
APPROPRIATIONS: Omnibus winners and losers
Coming in at 1,665 pages, the fiscal 2017 omnibus package that Congress hopes to clear this week could be the biggest bill lawmakers move this year. The House Rules Committee is meeting to discuss it later today, with the full House likely to vote as soon as tomorrow…
PARIS AGREEMENT: ‘We’re gonna have to do the same meeting again’ — with Trump
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Top administration officials failed to reconcile their differences over the Paris climate agreement yesterday, making an additional meeting likely over which President Trump may preside, according to a source…
Republicans: Where do potential Trump primary opponents stand on climate?
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Any Republican who takes the plunge into the 2020 presidential primary faces some unpleasant math.While President Trump’s overall approval rating sits around 41 percent…
Democrats: Progressives look to enforce climate litmus test
Progressive groups are looking to drive the conversation about climate change as the Democratic presidential primaries spool up, and so far, they’ve had a few successes. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…
‘Green New Deal’ exposes rifts in the Democratic Party
Progressives have created a frenzy by promising a “Green New Deal” to transition the U.S. away from fossil fuels within a decade. The proposal, backed by the freshman media sensation Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
New Congress Members See Climate Solutions and Jobs in a Green New Deal
The idea that climate action must be bound up in the drive for economic justice is at least as old as the pledges nations made at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. But young U.S. activists…
Scott Pruitt never gave up EPA plans to debate climate science, records show
In Scott Pruitt’s final weeks as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, his political advisers were still considering ways to formally raise doubts about climate change science, agency records show…
The Heat: UN climate deal
The deal reached in Katowice, Poland sets rules on how every country measures, reports and verifies efforts to cut emissions, implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. The delegates delayed decisions…
‘We can move forward now’: UN climate talks take significant step
They lacked the drama, excitement and eventual breakthrough that marked the Paris agreement of 2015, but this year’s UN climate talks produced important steps forward…
COP 24: Saudis offer rare insight into move to sideline IPCC
[E&E subscription required to read article.] KATOWICE, Poland — Saudi Arabia is used to being the black sheep of the U.N. climate process…
That was awkward — at world’s biggest climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels
President Trump’s top White House adviser on energy and climate stood before the crowd of some 200 people on Monday and tried to burnish the image of coal, the fossil fuel that powered the industrial revolution…
Trump administration resists global climate efforts at home and overseas
The United States joined a controversial proposal by Saudi Arabia and Russia this weekend to weaken a reference to a key report on the severity of global warming, sharpening battle lines…
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