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Gas Exports on Trump’s Agenda for Europe
[E&E subscription required to read article.] When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker meets with President Trump next week, “energy security” will share the agenda with controversial topics like trade and counterterrorism…
Feinstein shifts on fracking as Dems struggle with messaging
Sen. Dianne Feinstein supports a fracking ban in California, signaling a shift to the left as she fights to fend off a liberal challenger. “I’m not for fracking, particularly with respect to California,” the California Democrat told E&E News…
Centrist Democrats’ new climate rallying cry
A centrist Democratic group says the party has botched its climate and energy strategy for many years — with dire consequences at the ballot box — and should offer a vision that embraces the nation’s fracking boom…
Trump’s anti-environmental zeal might finally give Democrats a way to make climate a winning issue
A paper published today by New Democracy suggests that now is the time for the Democratic Party to figure out a better strategy on climate. According to the centrist Democratic organization — whose advisors include Colorado Governor…
How Andrew Wheeler, the New Acting E.P.A. Chief, Differs From Scott Pruitt
The departure of Scott Pruitt, the scandal-plagued former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, means that the agency will be led in the coming months by Mr. Pruitt’s deputy, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist…
The Energy 202: Trump’s plan to overhaul government would give Interior and EPA more power
The White House on Thursday unveiled a radical overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, including many of the agencies managing energy and natural resources. The Trump administration’s ideas for revamping…
White House reorganization plan draws broad rebuke
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The Trump administration’s reorganization plan for the Department of Energy sparked angry backlash today from Capitol Hill to the nonprofit world for calling to sell off…
Tom Wolfe’s Mocking of Liberal Hypocrisy
To the editor: A hyperbolic New Journalism was Tom Wolfe’s signature style and method, as your fine obituary makes clear. But his ultimate intent was far more political. Mr. Wolfe’s most consistent topic was satirizing…
Fewer GOP Voters Worried About Climate Change Since Irma and Harvey
About eight months after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma swept through the Gulf Coast and the southeastern United States, fewer Republican voters are concerned about climate change, according to a recent Morning Consult/Politico poll…
Macron fails to woo Trump on Paris accord
[E&E subscription required to read article.] French President Emmanuel Macron appeared to make little headway in climate discussions with President Trump today despite a firm show of friendship…
The Energy 202: NAACP joins environmental groups in calling for Scott Pruitt’s ouster
Environmental organizations have made themselves hoarse calling for Scott Pruitt’s ouster from the Environmental Protection Agency over his controversial spending and personnel decisions, as well as his deregulatory agenda. Now a number of other nonprofit outfits…
Regulators defy Trump team in move to slash emissions
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The U.N. agency responsible for global shipping took its first halting steps toward greenhouse gas regulation Friday, despite the objections of the Trump White House…
EPA: Pruitt’s overseas travel pulls Icahn LNG money into focus
A December trip to Morocco by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt could benefit Carl Icahn, an activist investor who holds a controlling stake in the largest U.S. natural gas exporter and who helped Pruitt secure his position in President Trump’s Cabinet…
Trump adviser with major role in disaster response exits
[E&E subscription required to read article.] A top White House adviser who fielded questions about climate change, tackled natural disasters and worked to ramp up cybersecurity for the Trump administration resigned today…
Tillerson out, Pompeo in at State
[E&E subscription required to read article.] President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, announcing on Twitter today that CIA Director and former Kansas Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo would be his anointed replacement…
Trump just put a climate science doubter in charge of the department that leads international climate talks
Mike Pompeo’s coming elevation to secretary of state would put an official who has expressed doubts about climate science in charge of the department tasked with representing the United State at a crucial upcoming international climate summit…
Energy adviser quits over failure to get security clearance
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The White House’s top energy adviser and most vocal proponent of engaging in the Paris climate accord resigned today after failing to obtain a permanent security clearance…
White House climate adviser resigns after past pot use blocked security clearance
A White House climate adviser resigned Wednesday after failing to receive a permanent security clearance, becoming the latest member of the Trump administration to leave amid scrutiny of the background checks of presidential advisers…
CARBON CAPTURE: Cheers and jeers as Trump signs CCS credits into law
[E&E subscription required to read article.] President Trump signed a spending bill into law today that drew cheers from carbon capture supporters and protests from clean-tech advocates…
Is Trump Remaking America?
James Naughtie looks at a revolution that is altering the face of America, in ways that may last far beyond Donald Trump’s presidency.
Billionaire climate candidates struggle to win over environmentalists
Tom Steyer and Mike Bloomberg can make the case that they’ve done more over the last decade to fight climate change than anyone else running for president, something that would seem to give them a leg up in a Democratic primary…
Climate-focused Democrats hope for November reward
House Democrats know that their “comprehensive” climate plans are unlikely to see the light of day in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate and face vetoes by a president who has at times rejected the scientific consensus on global warming…
Could sand spread on sea ice help keep the Arctic cool?
Think of the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean as a reflective heat shield vital to a stable climate. Then consider that about 95 percent of multiyear ice, the older ice that’s crucial to this heat shield, has vanished in the last four decades….
Supreme Court weighs lawsuit pitting climate scientist against skeptics
The Supreme Court on Friday will consider whether to take up a prominent climatologist’s defamation suit against a venerated conservative magazine, in a case that pits climate scientists against the free speech rights of global warming skeptics…
The Energy 202: Some environmentalists aren’t thrilled about a potential Bloomberg 2020 run
Many environmentalists have celebrated Michael Bloomberg as a philanthropist who has generously bankrolled the fight against climate change, spending hundreds of millions of dollars of his own fortune on trying to close coal-fired power plants. But they’re not as excited about…
Senate defections show just how far Democrats would have to go on climate change
A SENATE REALITY CHECK FOR DEMOCRATS: The defection of three red-state Senate Democrats on a vote Thursday to block the Trump EPA’s gutting of the Obama Clean Power plan shows that Democrats still have work to do — a lot — to pass…
Climate crisis will not be discussed at G7 next year, says Trump official
The climate crisis will not be formally discussed at the G7 summit in June next year, Donald Trump’s acting White House chief of staff said on Thursday. “Climate change will not be on the agenda,” Mick Mulvaney told reporters, without elaborating…
How U.S. fossil fuels are tied to Ukraine and impeachment
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Ukraine, now at the center of a rapidly accelerating impeachment inquiry against President Trump, has been central to the president’s efforts to increase U.S. exports of fossil fuels…
Climate Change: Are we too late?
Europe has been experiencing record breaking heat waves; there are unheard of wildfires in the Arctic region; glacier melts are flooding out entire villages in Greenland; and it’s official: the World Meteorological Organization…
Will US Republicans Feel the Heat from Climate Change?
Francis Rooney is a Republican congressman from a conservative Florida district who opposes federal funding for abortions and supports President Donald Trump’s plans for construction of a wall along the Mexican border. But…
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