Like the misguided Medieval King Canute, who believed he could hold back the incoming tide, Trump yesterday tried to reign back President Obama’s climate legacy and derail the "unstoppable" clean energy transition, by denying climate science and pledging his allegiance to fossil fuels, notably coal.
There is a new climate villain in town. Later today, President Donald Trump will deliberately go from a climate denier to a climate destroyer.
For those fighting the KXL pipeline, there are important lessons to learn from recent events. First that Trump is defeatible. The man who has made a career of being an Alpha-male bully in business is now finding the reality of politics very different.
Later today, the Trump administration is expected to announce the approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
Two landmark legal cases are becoming intertwined after the Attorneys representing 21 youth plaintiffs demanded that the US Government and American Petroleum Institute hand over a series of alias emails that were used by Rex Tillerson, then head of Exxon, to discuss climate change.
When Donald Trump promised to drain the swamp, many of his supporters hoped he would take on the political and media establishment and radically shake them both up.
