Texas, Trump and Climate Change
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The Trump administration has hired three prominent researchers who over the course of their careers have questioned and even rejected the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change. Each were given positions in the Energy Department, which is led by Secretary Chris Wright, a former oil and gas fracking executive.
The move is part of a broader reorganization that includes the elimination of the Office of Global Change, which handles U.S. climate negotiations.
The firings of nearly a dozen people in the Office of Global Change include the last remaining U.S. climate negotiators.
President Donald Trump’s big bill phases out energy tax credits for developers and homeowners, significantly speeding up timelines for clean energy products and threatening their viability. We asked Alexa St. John, a climate reporter with the Associated Press, about how Trump’s new policies could reshape U.S. energy supply.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” just signed by President Trump will slash support for clean energy, leaving the US far short of its Paris Agreement pledge
Sheldon Whitehouse will give his 300th floor speech on climate on Wednesday, less than a week after Congress rolled back clean energy incentives.
They say the youth-led lawsuit — which targets three of the president's energy-related executive orders — would cost money and jobs.
The U.S. isn’t trying to lead on climate action anymore. And, in this case, other countries don’t want to follow the U.S. example anyway.
The broad anti-climate atmosphere of the Trump administration has not prevented very large funding rounds for climate tech companies.
US retreat from climate commitments under the Trump administration will have “significant consequences” for the planet, EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra told Euronews at The Europe Conversation.
President Trump’s efforts to freeze climate spending have sparked warnings of rippling consequences in years ahead. For many climate scientists, the consequences are already here.