DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Throughout 2019 the Trump administration continued to roll back environmental standards. Tags: Greta Thunberg Donald Trump petrochemical development Coalition Against Death Alley cancer alley Meanwhile, advocacy groups and activists ramped up the battle for clean air and water and a livable climate. .

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 25, 2020

Read time: 9 mins It was just over a year ago that President Trump announced , “The golden era of American energy is now underway,” saying that his policies focused on exploiting oil, gas, and coal were “unleashing energy dominance.” . Tags: fracking LNG coal Donald Trump Harold Hamm What a difference a year makes.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Tags: Cameron LNG Export Terminal Donald Trump LNG Export Terminals cancer alley Hurricane Laura For LNG 's financial backers, downtime due to hurricanes represents another layer of risk and uncertainty brought to the forefront in a difficult year that's seen many proposed projects delayed or deferred.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 1, 2020

Tags: Michael Moore Planet of the Humans Jeff Gibbs Heartland Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) Koch Family Foundations Donald Trump Michael Shellenberger James Delingpole myron ebell institute for energy research andrew bolt breitbart Daily Caller

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 20, 2020

Tags: coal Black Lung national mining association coronavirus

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2020

Read time: 5 mins The Trump administration is eyeing new strategies to support a struggling oil and gas sector, which may include freeing up funds or facilitating access to lending programs under coronavirus economic relief efforts, even as millions of Americans remain unemployed and with coronavirus testing and personal protective equipment in short (..)

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

A scathing speech by Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg and the passing presence of President Trump upstaged presentations from world leaders, who in some cases did announce pledges to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 but overall failed to offer visionary solutions for the rapid transition away from fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

The other trend has been the surge of right-wing nationalist politics across Western nations , which includes Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., Tags: Nationalism climate science denial extreme weather climate change Donald Trump and the rise of nationalist political parties around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2020

Tags: Charles Koch koch industries Donald Trump americans for prosperity (AFP) COVID-19

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Tags: American Petroleum Institute Donald Trump national association of manufacturers global climate coalition American Legislative Exchange Council ALEC

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Read time: 9 mins On September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada Canada border into Alaska.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 23, 2020

Read time: 6 mins With major cities and states issuing stay-at-home orders as coronavirus cases have swept throughout the United States, the Trump Administration opened the floodgates for more offshore drilling and issued a permit for a long contested gas export project.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Read time: 5 mins In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Howard Hamm referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phrase used by President Donald Trump to suggest that some votes cast in the 2020 election are not legitimate.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 14, 2020

Read time: 14 mins Among a string of recent environmental rollbacks, President Donald Trump ’s U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) aims to vastly narrow the scope of environmental reviews for those applying for liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export permits.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

under President Donald Trump still trust government-issued weather reports? That's the question at the heart of a Saturday report from The Washington Post that leadership at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) directed staff not to contradict Trump's claims that Hurricane Dorian would impact Alabama.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Read time: 8 mins When candidate Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh at the Shale Insight conference in 2016, he arrived with a message for the gathered shale executives: I will roll back regulation, especially environmental regulation, and you — your industry — will thrive like you were never able to under Obama. “

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Read time: 4 mins A US thinktank with close ties to Donald Trump has obtained accreditation for a delegation of climate science deniers to the UN summit currently underway in Madrid.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Read time: 3 mins The oil industry, a staunch opponent of electric vehicles ( EV s), received an early Christmas present from the White House as President Trump reportedly intervened to quash an EV tax credit expansion from inclusion in a government spending package. .

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Read time: 4 mins As public hearings in the Trump impeachment inquiry headed into their second week, one of the nation’s top political cable news hosts was connecting the dots between the rise of authoritarianism, challenges to democracy, and the corrupting power of the oil and gas industry. “ presidential election.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Read time: 3 mins With Donald Trump set to become the President of the United States, the international climate change political scenery has shifted. Tags: Donald Trump nigel farage Nick Hurd Brexit clexit international climate talks Marrakech climate conference

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

deals to sell natural gas this winter carry a price tag that’s roughly double or triple the costs in recent years , with a few traders placing bets that U.S. Then-President Donald J. Trump participates in a walking tour of Cameron LNG Export Terminal May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, Louisiana. In the U.S., in Murray’s recounting ).

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In the aftermath of the November 3 election, President Donald Trump has tried every trick in the book to avoid facing the reality of his loss. Tags: Donald Trump Trump Administration federal energy regulatory commission (FERC) David Bernhardt ANWR PM2.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While President Donald Trump made the decision to withdraw the U.S. Tags: Paris Climate Agreement Donald Trump UNFCCC Vice President Joe Biden has officially left the Paris climate agreement. However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

That dissent in Gulf Run takes on new relevance as the term of FERC Commissioner Neil Chatterjee, appointed by Donald Trump in 2017, ended on Wednesday. Gulf Run’s relatively modest price tag — estimated at $540 million by its builders or over $1.1

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Read time: 8 mins “ To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Only by voting for me,” Trump added, “can you save your fracking in Pennsylvania.”. Tags: Donald Trump Vice President Joe Biden fracking pennsylvania COVID-19

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

US President Donald Trump has tapped oil industry executive Jeffrey Bossert Clark to lead enforcement of environmental regulations. Clark fits in nicely with Trump's long history of choosing dubious legal council. Trump has a long history of legal troubles. Subscribe in a reader

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In 2020 science denial is again a game changer, this time for Republican President Donald Trump, who has continued to downplay COVID -19’s seriousness, even after he was hospitalized for the disease which has killed more than 210,000 Americans.

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