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January 20: Decoding Trump’s White House
Energy Plan
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/decoding-trumps-white-house-energy-plan-21097
January 24: Trump’s energy plan is riddled
with contradictions
https://grist.org/article/trumps-energy-plan-is-riddled-with-contradictions/
February 8: Renewables missing from Trump's energy plan
Even with federal support, coal will likely be too expensive to compete with
renewable energy
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3167261/sustainable-it/renewables-missing-from-trumps-energy-plan.html
February 14: President Donald Trump Tuesday
signed the first in a series of congressional regulatory rollback bills,
revoking an Obama-era regulation that required oil and mining companies to
disclose their payments to foreign governments.
That regulation, part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reforms, was strongly
opposed by the oil and gas industry — including Trump's Secretary of State, Rex
Tillerson, who as head of Exxon Mobil
personally lobbied to kill the Securities and Exchange Commission's rule
that he said would make it difficult to do business in Russia.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-sec-rule-foreign-governments-235013
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March 31: What President Trump’s Energy and
Climate Executive Order Does — and Doesn’t Do
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/446309/myths-vs-facts-what-president-trumps-energy-and-climate-executive-order-does-and
May 14:
Trump thinks that exercising too much uses up the body’s ‘finite’ energy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-thinks-that-exercising-too-much-uses-up-the-bodys-finite-energy/2017/05/12/bb0b9bda-365d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.3c02a8677518
June 21: Trump holds meeting to address
power grid cyber threats
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/338790-trump-holds-meeting-to-address-power-grid-cyber-threats
June 22:
Experts Suspect Russia Is Using Ukraine As A Cyberwar Testing Ground ... Ukraine
has been the victim of a "cyber-assault unlike any the world has ever seen."
Cybersecurity experts think Russia is perfecting attacks that could be used on
the U.S.
https://www.npr.org/2017/06/22/533951389/experts-suspect-russia-is-using-ukraine-as-a-cyberwar-testing-ground
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June 28: Trump wants America to be 'energy
dominant.' Here's what that means
The concept is not very different from past calls for "energy independence."
The White House is seeking to break with the Obama administration, but its
stance on fossil fuel exports is similar in some respects.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/trump-america-energy-dominant-policy.html
July 26: Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May
Be Coming from Inside the White House
Donald Trump’s secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once
campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees
everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department’s
budget is now on the chopping block. But does anyone in the White House really
understand what the Department of Energy actually does? And what a horrible risk
it would be to ignore its extraordinary, life-or-death responsibilities?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/department-of-energy-risks-michael-lewis
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August 2: Trump's energy agenda is plowing
ahead as other initiatives stall
President Donald Trump may be
fuming over Republicans' failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, but he can
certainly take solace in the GOP's swift overhaul of the Obama administration's
energy and environmental agenda.
Still, Trump is a long way from complete victory. Many of the administration's
actions are now snarled in legal challenges that threaten to derail or dilute
Trump's goals.
It will be years before some of these issues are resolved. That means Trump
could find himself staring down the same dilemma in 2020 that Obama faced in
2016: He'll be trying to lock in his touchstone energy policies at the end of a
four-year term, with a political rival eager to overturn them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/02/trumps-energy-agenda-is-plowing-ahead-as-other-initiatives-stall.html
October 9: Trump Is About to Stifle U.S.
Solar Power. Why?
While it’s conceivable that tariffs could lead to some new domestic panel
production, this is
uncertain. What is clear is that with the proposed $0.40 per watt tariff for
solar cells and a floor price of $0.78 per watt for solar modules, prices for
most solar installations would
roughly double. According to a recent study from Greentech Media, these
trade policy changes would likely
halt two-thirds of U.S. solar installation through 2022.
http://fortune.com/2017/10/09/trump-climate-change-solar-power-tariffs/
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October 9: Nearly 20% of the world’s
population has no electricity.
... a group of London graduates ... concluded that Africa will largely bypass
the grid and leapfrog over Europe and North America straight into solar – just
as it did in skipping landlines, a rarity in rural Africa, in favour of cell
phones.
“If you go to a customer and tell them, ‘You’re spending $5-$20 per month on
kerosene and batteries, but for the same amount, you can have electricity’ –
well, it’s a pretty easy sell,” says Hamayun, BBOXX’s chief executive officer.
“Governments and development agencies also understand that solar is the
long-term solution for those customers.”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20171009-rural-rwanda-is-home-to-a-pioneering-new-solar-power-idea
November 1: The U.S. Is Breaking Clean
Energy Records Even As Trump Doubles Down On Fossil Fuels ... The U.S. hit
several historic firsts in renewable energy in 2016 and 2017, according to a
major new report.
Some of the historic
firsts in renewable energy in the past year included adding more than 14
gigawatts of solar capacity in 2016 ― almost double the record-breaking amount
in 2015. And for the first time on record in 2017, solar and wind provided over
10 percent of all electricity power for a single month in the U.S. in both March
and April. In some regions, such as California and Texas, wind and solar at
times met more than 50 percent of total energy demand.
The country also added
its first
offshore wind farm last year off of Rhode Island’s Block Island, though the
U.S. still
trails behind Europe in the industry, which has been active there for years.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/report-clean-energy-records-trump_us_59d5367be4b0cde45872a047
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November 4:
[While on his first Asian trip],
Donald Trump has
publicly pleaded with
Saudi Arabia to sell shares in its national oil
company, Aramco, on the New York Stock Exchange.
"Would very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New
York Stock Exchange," the US President tweeted. "Important
to the United States!"
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-aramco-ipo-twitter-oil-new-york-stock-exchange-national-company-a8037411.html
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November 13: Why Is Trump's Energy
Department Lumping Coal and Nuclear Together?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-11-13/why-trumps-energy-department-lumping-coal-and-nuclear-together
November 14: Trump touts big energy deals in
Asia ... US President Donald Trump wraps up a 12-day tour of Asia on Tuesday
which he said created $300bn (£228bn) in sales to companies in the region and
several major energy deals.
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Energy agreements made up roughly half the total value of
deals in China.
If it proceeds, a project in Alaska would mark the first major investment by a
Chinese energy firm in the US.
But analysts have doubts over whether this, and other, multi-billion dollar
projects will be realised.
Mr Trump adopted a defiant tone on commerce during his five-nation tour through
Asia and said
the US would no longer tolerate "chronic trade abuses".
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41967171
December 22: Trump's Busy Year On Energy And
Environment
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/570548757/trumps-busy-year-on-energy-and-environment
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January 4: Pacific Coast Governors Condemn
Federal Decision to Expand Offshore Drilling
California Governor Edmund G. ["Jerry"] Brown Jr., Oregon Governor Kate Brown
and Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued the following statement today in
response to the federal proposal to expand oil and gas offshore drilling,
including in Pacific waters, for the first time in decades:
“This political decision to open the magnificent and beautiful Pacific Coast
waters to oil and gas drilling flies in the face of decades of strong opposition
on the part of Oregon, Washington and California – from Republicans and
Democrats alike.
“They’ve chosen to forget the utter devastation of past offshore oil spills to
wildlife and to the fishing, recreation and tourism industries in our states.
They’ve chosen to ignore the science that tells us our climate is changing and
we must reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But we won’t forget history or
ignore science.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2018/01/04/news20123/
January 5: Can't please everyone: Trump
energy policy riles competing sectors ... Utilities, for instance, have shown
little interest in buying more coal-fired power despite the regulatory rollbacks
in Trump’s pro-coal push.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-energy/cant-please-everyone-trump-energy-policy-riles-competing-sectors-idUSKBN1EU13Z
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January 8: Energy panel rejects Trump
administration plan to boost coal, nuclear power plants ...
The decision by the Republican-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
was unexpected and comes amid repeated promises by Trump to revive coal as the
nation’s top power source. The industry has been besieged by multiple
bankruptcies and a steady loss of market share as natural gas and renewable
energy flourish.
The energy commission said in its decision that despite claims by the
administration to the contrary, there is no evidence that any past or planned
retirements of coal-fired power plants pose a threat to reliability of the
nation’s electric grid.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/energy-panel-rejects-trump-administration-plan-to-boost-coal-nuclear-power-plants
January 23:
Trump’s energy juggernaut faces a more
daunting Year 2 ... Legal challenges and
market forces will have a lot to say about the success or failure of his
pro-fossil-fuel agenda.
President Donald Trump has resurrected the Keystone XL pipeline, renounced the
Paris climate agreement, opened a long-disputed Alaska refuge to oil drilling
and ordered his agencies to erase Obama-era regulations on the petroleum, coal
and power industries — all in the name of asserting U.S. “energy dominance.”
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But from here on, his victories will become harder to achieve.
Now ... the courts will have their say in how far these rollbacks go, as much of
Trump’s deregulatory agenda faces legal challenges from state attorneys general
and environmental groups stretching from D.C. to California.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/trump-energy-pipeline-drilling-paris-climate-353585
January 24: The conservative backlash to
Trump's solar tariffs begins
The U.S. solar industry was finally dealt a blow this week by the Trump
administration after it was spared from having
key breaks ended in the GOP tax overhaul and
the dulling of its competitive edge in a recent Energy Department proposal.
It took the form of a tariff.
The usual suspects —
environmentalists, along with their Democratic allies — cried foul, bemoaning
yet another twist of the screw from Trump restricting the development of
renewable energy.
But another set of Washington interests was up in arms as well.
Representatives from a Who's Who of conservative organizations — the Heritage
Foundation, the R Street Institute and the American Legislative Exchange Council
— have voiced opposition to the new solar tariffs, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-energy-202/2018/01/24/the-energy-202-the-conservative-backlash-to-trump-s-solar-tariffs-begins/5a6785ff30fb0469e884031e/?utm_term=.c9f48135546e
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January 24: What Will Donald Trump’s Solar
Tariff Mean for Renewable Energy? ... Here's how the president could actually
stunt growth and produce less green technology jobs for Americans
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/what-will-donald-trumps-solar-tariff-mean-for-renewable-energy
January 28: Why energy infrastructure could
be a huge win for President Trump in his State of the Union address
President Trump’s first State of the Union speech Tuesday night is a prime
opportunity to put infrastructure front and center in his domestic agenda. For
the sake of our nation’s economic prosperity and national security, the
president should emphasize the potential of clean energy infrastructure.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/28/why-energy-infrastructure-could-be-huge-win-for-president-trump-in-his-state-union-address.html
January 30: ‘Clean coal’ doesn’t exist ...
Just a friendly reminder that Trump's energy rhetoric makes zero sense.
At his 2018 State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Trump
declared that he has “ended the war on energy” and “ended the war on clean
coal.” He referred to clean coal as “beautiful.”
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It’s not clear what exactly Trump is taking credit for here, as neither war is
rooted in reality.
The U.S. did not struggle to produce domestic energy prior to Trump’s
declaration earlier this year that he would usher in a “new era of American energy
dominance.” Production of energy in U.S. has
increased steadily since 2005
due to cheaper solar and wind and rise in natural gas production.
https://thinkprogress.org/clean-coal-fact-check-432ad2c246e5/
January 30: ... the market forces most
significantly impacting the American energy landscape, such as natural-gas
dominance and the quickening pace of the uptake of clean energy, remain much the
same as a year ago. The effects of one of the administration’s most
consequential decisions, the
Section 201 solar tariffs, still remain somewhat uncertain.
Trump did not downplay his administration's results in his address, however,
instead favoring the kind of grandiose pronouncements that often pepper his
rhetoric.
“We have ended the war on American energy,” Trump said from the podium. “And we
have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal.”
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/trumps-state-of-the-union-touts-supposed-energy-accomplishments-with-few-sp#gs.GdEbxHI
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January 30: "We are now, very proudly, an
exporter of energy to the world," Trump said Tuesday night.
American exports of one form of energy, crude oil, are booming. But that's not
because of Trump. US oil production has climbed substantially for a decade. And
Congress repealed a law in 2015 and allowed US producers to send crude to
countries other than Canada.
The United States recently became a net exporter of natural gas. But that was
because a technological revolution made it easier to extract an abundance of gas
from shale formations.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/state-of-the-union-address-fact-check/index.html
January 30: President Trump Bragged the U.S.
Now Exports Energy. We Already Were ... He is right that the energy sector is
booming, but advances in the energy industry has its origins in technology
advances and policy changes that predate the Trump presidency.
The U.S. has exported energy for decades. More recently, in 2016, as a result of
an Obama-era change, the U.S. began exporting crude oil after a 40-year ban. And
the Obama Administration approved infrastructure to export natural gas, much of
which is only entering into use today.
http://time.com/5126029/state-union-donald-trump-energy/
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January 31: US President Donald Trump gave
his first State of the Union on Tuesday night and in a long-winded exhibition of
his ability to read from a teleprompter and stay on script, the president gave
short shrift to the country’s energy industry, ignoring the booming renewable
energy sector and serving his few words for ending “the war on American Energy”
and ending “the war on clean coal.”
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/01/31/energy-gets-short-shrift-trumps-first-state-union-highlights-clean-coal/
February 4: Trump's Deceptive Energy Policy
... There is no “war on energy,”
no “clean coal.” But now we have a war on common sense.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/opinion/trump-energy-policy.html
March 5: Trump energy plan is a climate
changer ... U.S. should sell carbon capture technology, secure energy
independence
Mr. Trump has
recognized America has a thousand years of energy under its feet and has spoken
the words which forces the Left to cover their ears in horror: Drill baby drill.
In Mr. Trump’s
mind, and rightfully so, energy independence is a national security priority.
Threat Assessment feels the same way and will continue to add to the discussion
in this critical area for our country’s future.
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The most refreshing change has been
Mr. Trump’s
embrace of clean coal and associated technologies, to the delight of coal miners
in West Virginia and elsewhere. If the Middle East has oil, America has coal — a
lot of it. According to the Energy Information Agency, as of Jan. 1, 2017, the
U.S. had 476 billion short tons of coal, or roughly a quarter of the world’s
proven coal reserves.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/5/trump-energy-plan-climate-changer-clean-coal/
March 15: DHS and FBI detail how Russia is
hacking into U.S. nuclear facilities and other critical infrastructure
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/15/russia-energy-hack-dhs-fbi-us-cert/
March 15:
The
Trump administration accused Russia on
Thursday of engineering a series of cyberattacks that targeted American and
European nuclear power plants and water and
electric systems, and could have sabotaged
or shut power plants
off at will.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/us/politics/russia-cyberattacks.html
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March 21: Oil and gas drillers bid on only a
tiny fraction of Gulf of Mexico acreage offered on Wednesday in the largest
lease sale in American history, a setback to the Trump administration’s efforts
to rapidly pump up investment in the region.
... companies facing multi-billion dollar price tags to develop the acreage and
tempted by better terms overseas bid on just 1 percent of the area up for grabs,
winning with bids that averaged just $153 an acre - 35 percent below levels last
year, and a fraction of those in the region in 2013 when oil prices were higher,
according to the data.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-drilling-gulfmexico/drillers-give-tepid-response-to-record-u-s-offshore-lease-sale-idUSKBN1GX18D
March 22: Trump wanted to slash funding for
clean energy. Congress ignored him.
The omnibus spending bill contains funding increases for clean energy research.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/3/22/17151352/omnibus-energy-environment-trump
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April 10: Trump Once Railed Against Offshore
Wind but Is Now Embracing It
With the Trump administration now under way ... things seem to have changed. As
Climate Central
points out, the Department of the Interior is putting big chunks of
territory on America’s Eastern Seaboard up for lease, and making sure people
know when new deals are signed. “This is a big win,” Interior Secretary Ryan
Zinke said in March after the Spanish firm Avangrid paid $9 million to lease
122,000 acres off North Carolina.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604129/trump-once-railed-against-offshore-wind-but-is-now-embracing-it/
April 20: The oil market has caught
President Trump in an awkward spot between his pro-business instincts and his
populist tendencies.
Trump, a major friend to the fossil fuels industry, took OPEC to task on Friday
for the
recent surge in oil prices. The price has climbed toward $70 in recent
weeks, the highest in more than three years.
... millions of American voters will probably share the president's outrage if
gasoline prices soar as a result.
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"... oil-producing states are Trump red states. They're part of his coalition,"
said Joe McMonigle, senior energy policy analyst at Hedgeye Risk Management, an
investment research firm. "To have energy dominance you need higher prices to
support investment."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/20/news/oil-prices-opec-trump/index.html
June 1: Trump administration officials are making plans to order grid
operators to buy electricity from struggling coal and nuclear plants in an
effort to extend their life, a move that could represent an unprecedented
intervention into U.S. energy markets.
The Energy Department would exercise emergency authority under a pair of federal
laws to direct the operators to purchase electricity or electric generation
capacity from at-risk facilities, according to a memo obtained by Bloomberg
News. The agency also is making plans to establish a "Strategic Electric
Generation Reserve" with the aim of promoting the national defense and
maximizing domestic energy supplies.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/trump-said-to-grant-lifeline-to-money-losing-coal-power-plants-jhv94ghl
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July 3: First power from Scottish wind farm
opposed by Donald Trump
A major offshore wind farm has generated its first units of electricity, despite
the best efforts of the President of the United States.
The wind farm, located 1.5 miles off the Aberdeenshire coast, is fully
visible from a golf course owned by Donald Trump.
The US President fought the wind farm’s construction for years, complaining that
it would ruin the views from his luxury development. After losing every court
case, including at both Scotland and the UK’s highest courts, the President
accepted defeat in December 2015.
http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/first-power-from-scottish-wind-farm-opposed-by-donald-trump
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July 5: The Trump administration wants to
fire up development of the U.S. offshore wind industry by streamlining
permitting and carving out vast areas off the coast for leasing - part of its
'America First' policy to boost domestic energy production and jobs.
The drive to open America’s offshore wind industry has attracted Europe’s
biggest renewable energy companies, who see the U.S. East Coast as a new
frontier after years of success across the Atlantic.
Less experienced U.S. wind power companies, meanwhile, have struggled to compete
in their own backyard, according to lease data and interviews with industry
executives. Many are steering clear of the opportunity altogether, concerned by
development costs and attracted to cheaper options on land.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-wind/trump-effort-to-lift-u-s-offshore-wind-sector-sparks-interest-from-europe-idUSKBN1JV1VV
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July 30:
Trump has a visceral hatred of
wind turbines. He believes they are terrible
returns on investment that blight coastlines and obstruct views
Ironically, given Trump has shown
nothing but contempt for wind energy, the Trump administration is working hard
to promote wind farms up and down the Atlantic Coast:
"His policy is, wherever he goes he likes what
they have," said a source with direct knowledge of the internal White
House energy discussions. "Even if it's contrary to what he said at the last
place. He basically just tells everyone what they want to hear; that's his
energy policy."
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-energy-policy-wind-power-hydroelectric-7d54680b-5a1d-41f0-9be7-700ff0f6a0c6.html
August 9: America's rapid march to energy
independence has slowed under Trump
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/09/americas-rapid-march-to-energy-independence-has-slowed-under-trump.html
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August 13: Russian Reaction to Trump’s
Energy Policies Echoes Soviet Opposition to Reagan’s Missile Defense
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/08/13/russian-reaction-to-trumps-energy-policies-echoes-soviet-opposition-to-reagans-missile-defense/
August 21: Trump’s “Affordable Clean Energy”
Plan Won’t Save Coal
The Clean Power Plan replacement doesn’t change the economic headwinds hobbling
coal power
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-affordable-clean-energy-plan-wont-save-coal/
September 10: Trump's Energy Secretary
Heading To Moscow To Discuss More Energy Sanctions
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/09/10/trumps-energy-secretary-heading-to-moscow-to-discuss-more-energy-sanctions/#6eb85f001b80
September 13: The U.S. Congress today sent
President Donald Trump a 2019 spending bill that boosts funding for the
Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) basic research efforts—and rejects
deep cuts to the department’s applied research programs that the White House had
proposed.
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If Trump signs the bill into law—as many observers expect—DOE’s Office of
Science would get a 5.2% spending boost, to $6.585 billion, in fiscal year 2019,
which begins 1 October. In contrast, the Trump administration had proposed
slashing the Office of Science budget by 13.9% to $5.39 billion.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/congress-sends-trump-energy-spending-bill-includes-healthy-boost-science
September 21: Trump's EPA is targeting rules
for yet another greenhouse gas
On Wednesday, the EPA announced it wanted to get rid of rules meant to prevent
the leaking and venting of a set of organic compounds called hydrofluorocarbons,
or HFCs, from large refrigerating and air-conditioning units.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-Energy-202-Trump-s-EPA-is-targeting-rules-13247587.php
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November 27:
Senate panel advances Trump’s energy nominee despite Dem objections
The 13-10 vote in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee lines up
Bernard McNamee, a senior Department of Energy official, for a vote on the
Senate floor. The vote was along party lines, except for Sen.
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who broke with his party to support McNamee.
Since Trump nominated him earlier this year, McNamee has faced fierce opposition
from Democrats and environmentalists. They say his history working for the
conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation and the Trump administration —
including a key role in pushing a bailout for coal and nuclear plants that FERC
itself rejected — goes against the expectation that FERC is impartial and
fuel-neutral.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/418426-senate-panel-advances-trumps-energy-nominee-over-dem-opposition
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Undated: We are not holding our breath that
President Trump will start backing up his administration’s environmental agenda
with scientific facts. But we are holding him accountable for what he says.
President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies has an army
of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight. To help those who focus,
as we do, on climate, energy, and other environmental issues, NRDC will call out
Trump whenever he distorts the facts about such matters. Here, we offer our
inaugural edition of Trump Lies. We expect to update it regularly.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
December 16:
NY Times Slashes Ryan Zinke As ‘Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer’
Editorial dings Interior secretary as another “cheerleader” for the president’s
“boneheaded” energy strategy.
The New York Times ripped
outgoing Interior Secretary
Ryan Zinke on Saturday as a cheerleader for President
Donald Trump’s “boneheaded” policy of “energy dominance.” The editorial
noted that Zinke is leaving his job under the shadow of an” impressive number” —
15 — “ethics investigations.”
“On his first day in office, Mr. Zinke rode a horse to work, in plain imitation
of Teddy Roosevelt. As president, Mr. Roosevelt protected 230 million acres of
American wilderness, including 18 national monuments. Ten months into his tenure
as Interior Secretary, Mr. Zinke recommended the withdrawal of some two million
acres from two national monuments in Utah established by Mr. Obama and Bill
Clinton, the largest shrinkage of public land protection in history.”
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Zinke has often boasted: “No
one loves public land as much as I do.” But just this month his department
detailed the Trump administration’s latest anti-environment scheme to open
9 million acres to drilling and mining by stripping protections for the
ground-nesting sage grouse. It would open more land to drilling
than any other action by the administration to date, the Times reported. “No
one loves the sage grouse more than I do,” Zinke said last year.
Environmentalists are already steeling to battle Zinke’s No. 2, Deputy Interior
Secretary David Bernhardt, who is expected to be named acting secretary when
Zinke leaves.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/times-slashes-zinke-as-not-the-sharpest-knife-in-the-drawer_us_5c15bfe0e4b009b8aea7e1f2
The unanimously approved legislation puts the nation’s capital at the vanguard
of climate policy — even as the federal government is going in reverse.
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