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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…
PARIS AGREEMENT: Climate experts cast doubt on claim of imminent withdrawal
[E&E subscription required to read article.] A pronouncement by a key former Trump administration transition team member that the White House may soon unveil plans to withdraw from the Paris Agreement was met with skepticism…
Fighting Trump, enviros look to Bush strategy and to states
[E&E subscription required to read article.] Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” the official word of 2016. Facts, it seems, can be obsolete in the current political discourse. But some inescapable realities endure…
PIPELINES: Enviros, now on the outs with White House, look to the courts
[E&E subscription required to read article.] President Trump yesterday began making good on his promises to boost the oil and gas industry, signing memos reviving two controversial pipelines that have become the face of the climate…
Predicting Trump’s first executive actions
WHAT’S ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK? Donald Trump takes office today with big pledges to immediately roll back much of the Obama administration’s environmental agenda. He’ll need Congress’ help for much of that…
Which countries are standing up to Trump on climate?
China, India, Mexico and Canada are among the global heavyweights to signal renewed support for climate action ahead of the new US administration’s first week in office…
Trump Nominees Accept Global Warming, But Only to a Degree
[Bloomberg subscription required to read article.] The incoming Trump administration is defying long-held Republican orthodoxy on climate change, saying that humans are having an effect on the Earth’s temperatures…
Trump threatens UK climate science, PM May told
Donald Trump not only threatens US climate science, but research across the world, according to a letter from 100 UK scientists to prime minister Theresa May…
Exxon’s ‘sordid history’ on climate takes center stage today
[E&E subscription required to read article.] By all accounts, Rex Tillerson is the ultimate pragmatist. It’s a style many say characterized the former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO’s approach to negotiating for access to resources…
Tillerson doesn’t deny climate change – but dodges questions about Exxon’s role in sowing doubt
Secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson on Wednesday said he believes “the risk of climate change does exist, and the consequences could be serious enough that action should be taken.” But while the Obama administration…
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…
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