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Undated: List of countries by steel production
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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

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

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/

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

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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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

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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

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.”

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/

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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

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/

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/

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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.

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

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.

"... 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

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

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

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/

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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.

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

November 27:
A Senate committee has approved the Trump administration's nominee for the top federal energy board after a video surfaced showing him declaring that renewable energy "screws up" the nation's electrical grid.
http://www.mysuncoast.com/2018/11/27/trump-energy-nominee-clears-hurdle-after-fossil-fuel-remarks/


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

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

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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.”

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

December 14:
D.C. Just Passed A Historic Bill Mandating 100 Percent Renewable Power By 2032

The unanimously approved legislation puts the nation’s capital at the vanguard of climate policy — even as the federal government is going in reverse.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dc-historic-climate-bill-renewable-power_us_5c195218e4b08db990587aea

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