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Nikki Haley Resigns, Citing ‘Intense Time’
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Nikki Haley today announced her intention to leave her role as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, marking yet another departure of a top administration official…
Trump Admin Shrugs Off Warnings in U.N. Climate Report
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The White House responded to a dire climate report released this weekend with an oft-repeated talking point: The nation’s emissions have dropped since 2005…
Exxon and Chevron Join Industry Climate Change Group
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Climate Summit: 5 Things to Watch at This Week’s San Francisco Gathering
[E&E subscription required to read article.] SAN FRANCISCO — The summit that kicks off here tomorrow has been billed as the next big moment in the global struggle to contain global warming…
They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It’s Their Moment of Truth.
Hours after President Trump announced last year that the United States would exit the Paris climate deal, a broad group of governors, mayors and business executives declared that they would uphold the agreement anyway…
Greens Courted McCain on Climate
After Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Chafee (R-R.I.) died in office in 1999, green groups went searching for another top Republican to take charge on environmental issues. They set their sights on John McCain…
POLITICS: Former Trump Adviser Opens GOP Climate Shop
A former Trump White House official is launching a new venture to combat climate change. George David Banks, who was President Trump’s international energy adviser and an aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), is teaming up…
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 slashes DOE programs Perry likes. What’s going on?
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Yesterday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry touted the national labs as President Trump proposed slashing the Office of Science by more than $1 billion. It was one of several energy…
Bloomberg had success against coal, but faces tougher challenge with oil and gas
Former New York City mayor and climate change crusader Michael Bloomberg faces a tougher challenge in his new goal of fighting oil and gas than he had in his successful efforts shuttering coal plants. Bloomberg announced…
Oil and gas advertising spree signals industry’s dilemma: New campaigns show persistent focus on fossil fuels even with shift towards renewables
[Financial Times subscription required to read article.] It has been nearly 20 years since BP launched its “beyond petroleum” advertising campaign, which included a new sunburst logo and a plethora of videos about…
Inslee faces daunting 2020 challenge: To ‘get Americans excited’ about climate change
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee launched a 2020 run for president Friday making a bet untested in American politics: that a single-issue platform of fighting climate change can win. He kicked off his campaign with a launch video…
No, the Green New Deal doesn’t aim to end air travel, as Florida Sen. Rick Scott says
After U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., unveiled the Green New Deal, Republican critics said it would eventually ground air travel. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., outlined his opposition to the Democrats’ Green New Deal…
United Nations: Trump’s new ambassador sees ‘both sides’ on climate
[E&E subscription required to read article.] In choosing Kelly Knight Craft as U.N. ambassador, President Trump is asserting White House control over the U.S. mission at a time of rising hostility by the administration to climate…
GOP Looks to Turn Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal on Democrats
President Donald Trump calls it “brilliant.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promises to bring it up for a vote. And House Republicans want Speaker Nancy Pelosi to send it to the floor. Republicans are embracing…
7 questions about the Green New Deal
You may have heard a lot recently about the “Green New Deal,” championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and co-sponsored by more than 60 Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives…
How the Green New Deal Almost Went Nuclear on Its First Day
As Democrats unveiled their ambitious Green New Deal to fight climate change on Thursday, a controversy erupted over the role of nuclear power that threatened to undermine the whole effort. A fact sheet distributed by…
Democrats unveil proposal for ‘Green New Deal’
[Financial Times subscription required to read article.] Democrats unveil proposal for ‘Green New Deal’ Resolution sets out ambitious programme to cut emissions and create jobs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, centre, is one of…
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