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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…
Court Gives Trump Small Victory in Push Against Clean Power Plan
A federal court said on Friday it would halt consideration of a major lawsuit over former President Barack Obama’s signature policy aimed at tackling global warming, handing the Trump administration a modest and perhaps temporary victory…
PARIS AGREEMENT: Republicans ramp up their offensive
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Congressional Republicans have sent President Trump the strongest signal yet of what they want him to do with the Paris Agreement…
STATE DEPARTMENT: Leaked document details Trump’s plan for broad cuts
[E&E subscription required to read article.] A memo detailing how the Trump administration would cut the U.S. government’s financial assistance to developing countries shows the office at the forefront of the State Department’s climate work would see 94.5 percent of its budget slashed…
Why Oil Companies Are Fighting for the Paris Climate Deal
[National Journal subscription required to read article.] In a rare split with political conservatives, the industry sees the agreement as good for business and believes it will shape the climate agenda for years to come…
Your guide to who’s who in the Paris Agreement showdown
President Trump’s top advisers will meet in the White House today to resolve a monthslong conflict about whether the United States should quit or continue with the Paris climate agreement. Trump’s team is split, and though there is some evidence…
Businesses pressure Trump to stay in Paris climate deal
Businesses that support the Paris climate deal are pressuring President Trump to keep the United States in the accord. They argue that by staying involved in the international talks, the U.S. can discourage policies that could hurt the oil, gas and coal industries…
Trump promised to bring back coal jobs. That promise ‘will not be kept,’ experts say
President Trump lifted a moratorium on federal coal leases Tuesday, paving the way for excavation of a fossil fuel on public land in the West that few mining companies seem to want. With coal miners gathered around him, Trump signed an executive order…
Trump’s climate rollback raises deep questions about our promises to the rest of the world
President Donald Trump’s executive order rolling back former president Barack Obama’s signature global warming measure stopped short of withdrawing from the historic Paris climate accord — but was already raising concerns Tuesday…
GOP movement to stay in Paris accelerates
[E&E subscription required to read article.] A House ally of President Trump circulated a “Dear Colleague” letter to the president yesterday challenging him to make the Paris Agreement a better deal for U.S. fossil fuels…
Climate diplomacy fund dies in budget blueprint
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Climate change advocates say they are not optimistic about being able to save the $1.3 billion in international global warming assistance that President Trump would ax from the budget…
Trump ties review of Obama rules to auto industry jobs
[E&E subscription required to read article.] President Trump promised to review the Obama administration’s fuel economy rules today at a rally with automobile industry executives and workers in Michigan…
EPA Chief Questions CO2 link to Global Warming
The new head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, says he doesn’t agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming…
Trump Order Expected To Give EPA Choice To Scrap Or Replace ‘Power Plan’
President Donald Trump’s planned executive order targeting EPA’s greenhouse gas rule for existing power plants is expected to allow the agency to determine whether to entirely scrap the rule or issue a revised version that significantly scales back its requirements….
Life resumes, questions linger in crippled dam’s shadow
[E&E subscription required to read article.] OROVILLE, Calif. — People who live below the nation’s tallest dam returned home yesterday as officials declared damage to the Oroville Dam’s two spillways under control for now…
Trump’s last answer to a carbon tax? No way!
[E&E subscription required to read article.] The number of ideas for replacing the Clean Power Plan is beginning to grow…
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…
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