by David Sherfinski Thomson Reuters Foundation RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Having dismissed climate change as a con job, U.S. President Donald Trump now faces a key question — COP or no COP? Representatives of nearly every government in the world are expected at the global COP30 summit, scheduled next month in Brazil's Amazonian city of Belem, [...]
by Greg Walcher, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow The Daily Sentinel A lot of jokes about Elon Musk are making the rounds, in light of his new role in identifying government waste, fraud and abuse. One says after he puts a car into orbit, outer space will be full of germs and diseases, no longer [...]
by Lesley Clark E&E News's ClimateWire Conservatives hope the president-elect will topple a pillar of U.S. climate policy, but environmental attorneys say the science underpinning the finding is secure. Climate science skeptics emboldened by a second Trump administration are eager to strike down a scientific finding that bolsters U.S. climate action. But repealing the landmark [...]
by Hannah Northey E&E News's Greenwire Conservative groups that have long rejected the science underpinning climate action are lining up behind a policy wish list that calls on the incoming Trump team to ax climate agreements, make coal a “preferred means of electricity” and immediately freeze spending tied to the 2022 climate law, the Inflation [...]
by Steven Nelson and Ryan King New York Post WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump touted plans Thursday to reduce electricity costs by quickly approving the construction of new power plants and spurring the deployment of small modular reactors for nuclear energy — saying it would unleash an economic boom. Trump, 78, said that more electricity would [...]
