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Britain's new Environment Secretary was once the most hated politician in the land. It is easy to understand why.

It was meant to be Donald Trump’s greatest triumph. Yet it will prove his greatest failure. It was meant to send a strong powerful message to his supporters at home. But it backfired at home and abroad and left the President more isolated than ever before.

As the world waits for Donald Trump to make a decision on whether he will pull the US out of the UN Paris climate agreement, the Financial Times asks a simple question: “Might the world be better off if the US simply left?”

April 21 2017, will go down as a significant day in the dying days of the fossil fuel era. For the first time since the renewable revolution in 1882, Britain went a full day without using dirty coal to generate electricity.

This Saturday, on Earth Day, there will be a March to stand up for science in the face of the most anti-science US Administration ever. A March to stand up for facts in the Trump post-factual era. To highlight issues such as climate change with a climate denier in the White House. To stand up for scientific free speech, in a dangerous era of political censorship. The message is simple: “Science, not Silence.”

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.

Later today, the Trump administration is expected to announce the approval of the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

Scandal has a habit of coming full-circle. For months on the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to “lock her up”, referring to Hillary Clinton’s use of private email accounts.

"The arsonist is now in charge of the fire department, and he seems happy to let the climate crisis burn out of control”.