Donald Trump's presidency was controversial when it came to climate policy. During his first term, he removed the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement and reversed nearly 100 environmental rules, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
Donald Trump’s resounding election victory marks not only the Obama-Biden era’s end but the beginning of the end of the radical climate agenda. After all, one candidate promised to “drill, baby, drill” while the other had called climate change an “existential threat to who we are as a species.
Some of Donald Trump’s first steps on climate change when he enters the White House will send a message that the federal government no longer cares about the issue. He will pull out of the Paris Agreement. Allies say he’ll strip the phrases “climate change,” “clean energy” and “environmental justice” from every agency website.
After the election, there was a spike in incidents involving neo-Nazi marches and racist and hateful messages sent online, stoking fear for residents in several states across the country. Black, Latino and LGBTQ+ Americans in at least 25 states have been subjected to racist text messages telling them to report to a plantation to pick cotton.
Now that Donald Trump has taken back the White House, what will become of America’s effort to combat climate change and promote clean energy? Environmental advocates are pondering the question, given Trump’s pro-fossil fuel mentality,
Trump’s first term, campaign pledges and nominees point to how efforts to address climate change and environmental issues may fare.
Attorney General Aaron Frey, who is seeking re-election, said he intends to hold the energy companies accountable for failing to warn Mainers and concealing knowledge about the consequences of fossil fuels.
As this year's United Nations climate summit, COP 29, comes to an end, world leaders are uncertain about the future of climate change progress given the result of the latest U.S. presidential election.
The brown blockade is the phrase I’ve used to describe the hardening tendency of the states most deeply integrated into the existing oil and gas economy, as either major producers or consumers of fossil fuels, to support Republican presidential and congressional candidates who are resolutely opposed to federal action to combat climate change.
Michigan and other battleground states might have swung for Trump — but they elected environmentalists to U.S. Senate seats, too.
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Big US utilities’ climate goals are in peril as artificial intelligence turbocharges electricity demand and Donald Trump’s reelection signals policy shifts that would favor fossil fuels. These companies all have ambitious targets to cut their carbon emissions,