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Trump Promotes “Clean Coal” But Stops Research into Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal

In a rambling, often incoherent speech, to his die-hard supporters in Phoenix on Tuesday night, President Trump boldly predicted that “clean coal” was back.

Amoral Trump Disbands Climate Advisory Committee

As Trump’s presidency spirals like a toxic vortex from one crisis to another, and with the global news media reacting to one venomous tweet after another, it is easy to miss the slow assault against science and the environment that continues below the radar.

Trump Notifies UN of Official Climate Pull Out; But the Market Has Moved on

Two months after Donald Trump announced that he intended to pull America out of the UN Paris climate agreement, last Friday the State Department submitted the formal notification to the UN to that effect.

As Trump Signs New Russian Sanctions; Old Ones Don’t Stop Oil Exploration

As US President, Donald Trump, reluctantly signs new legislation imposing sweeping new sanctions on Russia, it has been revealed that existing sanctions on the country, designed to prevent frontier oil and gas exploration, are not working.

Trump Just Weaponized U.S. Energy Policy Against Alaskans

A move by Sec. Zinke on behalf of President Trump exposes some truly dangerous views in the administration and should put Trump’s entire energy policy under further scrutiny, not to mention their scruples and care for our democracy.

US Will Meet Paris Climate Commitments Without “Isolated” Trump

Donald Trump is so “isolated” or “irrelevant” on climate change that the US will meet or even exceed its Paris Agreement emission targets without him, according to former Vice-President, Al Gore.

Trump on “Direct Collision Course” With G20 Over Climate

As the G20 talks commence, the new international "Climate Pariah" Donald Trump is going to come under intense pressure from the G20 to reconsider pulling out of the Paris Climate agreement.

Big Win as Court Rules Against Trump & Pruitt on Methane Emissions

Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will awake this morning to the realization that they cannot simply roll-back President Obama’s environmental regulations, like you would the lid on an old sardine tin.

Just Three Years Left to Prevent Dangerous Climate Change

Never has the paradox been greater. Whilst the most powerful politician in the world is a climate denier, scientists are now warning that we have just three years to start making radical reductions to greenhouse gases.

As Trump Launches “Energy Week”, Teenagers See Renewables as Fuel of Their Generation

As Trump launches "Energy Week", a new survey finds that well over two thirds of teenagers believe renewables are the fuels of their generation, whereas oil and gas are their parents' fuel.