US Election 2020 – Trump Effect
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Auto & Alternative VehiclesClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatorySub-National GovernmentsUnited States
GM Abandons Support for Trump’s Fuel Economy Rollback
Giant automaker General Motors is stepping away from its support for Donald Trump’s efforts to strip California of its ability to set tougher fuel ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFinance & InvestmentFirst PeoplesJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasSub-National Governments
Trump Makes Last-Ditch Effort to Sell Drilling Rights in Arctic Wildlife Refuge
The Trump administration is making a last-ditch effort to sell oil and gas drilling rights in Alaska’s environmentally fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesBatteries/StorageBiodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCarbon-Free TransitionCCS & Negative EmissionsClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionDemand & EfficiencyElectricity GridEnergy Access & EquityEnergy SubsidiesFinance & InvestmentHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryMethaneNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasRenewable EnergySoil & Natural SequestrationSub-National GovernmentsTransitUnited States
Analysts Expect Fast Action on Infrastructure, Possible White House ‘Climate Czar’ as Biden-Harris Priorities Take Shape
Rolling back environmental deregulation, investing in green economic stimulus, restoring trust in science, and possible appointment of a White House “climate czar” are expected ... -
Auto & Alternative VehiclesCarbon Levels & MeasurementCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemand & DistributionEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsMethaneUnited States
Regardless of Election Result, U.S. Will Still Depart the Paris Agreement November 4
Even if a Biden-Harris victory is confirmed and declared in the hours after the polls close in next week’s presidential election, the United States ... -
Exxon Wants You to Know that Trump Didn’t Shake Them Down for a $10-Million Campaign Donation
ExxonMobil was scrambling Monday to clarify that it never received pressure from Donald Trump for a US$10-million campaign donation, after the rapidly-fading presidential candidate ... -
Coney Barrett Refuses to State ‘Views on Climate Change’ En Route to U.S. Supreme Court Appointment
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett dodged and weaved through two days of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, but “created perhaps the ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaBiodiversity & HabitatClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasUnited States
Suppressed Study Shows Polar Bears at Risk from Alaska Oil and Gas Drilling
A senior Trump administration official is delaying release of a science study that shows how Alaska oil and gas drilling would encroach on the ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemand & DistributionHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJurisdictionsLegal & RegulatoryNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
Hundreds of Toxic U.S. Superfund Sites at Heightened Risk of Climate Change Impacts
More than two-thirds of the 1,334 Superfund sites that currently blight the U.S. are increasingly at risk of serious climate change impacts—but that hasn’t ... -
Trump Tweets Plan for $22-Billion Freight Line from Alaska to Alberta
Canadian tar sands/oil sands producers are hoping for another export route to Asia after Donald Trump said he would issue a presidential permit to ... -
Opinion: Ginsburg’s Death Deals Another Blow to U.S. Climate Law
United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s uniquely untimely death on September 18, less than two months before the 2020 U.S. presidential election, ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Denial & GreenwashingClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
‘Climate Arsonist’ Trump Addresses California Wildfires by Talking Down Climate Science
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden branded Donald Trump a “climate arsonist”, after the current occupant of the White House poured gasoline on his ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Impacts & AdaptationHealth & SafetyJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOceansOil & Gas
Fossils Feel ‘Ambushed’ as Trump Extends Florida Offshore Drilling Moratorium to 2032
U.S. fossil lobbyists say they received no advance notice before Donald Trump went to Florida this week to announce he was extending the state’s ... -
Carbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyCoalDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyRenewable EnergySolarUnited StatesWind
Trump Administration Suppresses Landmark Grid Study that Boosted Renewables, Undercut Coal
The Trump administration has spent the last two years suppressing a landmark study by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that showed the ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatClimate Impacts & AdaptationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJurisdictionsNon-Renewable EnergyOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportUnited States
U.S. Fossil Plans Giant Chillers to Refreeze Permafrost Under Alaska Pipeline
Colossal fossil ConocoPhillips has come up with a startling climate adaptation strategy for a new pipeline it wants to build on Alaska’s North Slope. ... -
BuildingsCanadaCarbon-Free TransitionClimate & SocietyDemand & DistributionElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentJobs & TrainingJurisdictionsUnited States
Gray: Canada Loses if Trudeau Bets on a Second White House Term for Trump
The Trudeau government appears to be betting on a second White House term for Donald Trump, Environmental Defence Executive Director Tim Gray observes in ...
