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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.

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.

Former EPA Staffers Hit Back at “Severe”, “Unprecedented” and “Orwellian” Cuts

“The Trump Administration claims that it supports clean air and water, but its proposed FY 2018 Budget tells another story.”

Trump Dismissed as “Climate Buffoon” After Paris Pull-Out

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.

“Climate Criminal” Trump to “Leave Paris Deal” This Week

There are reports that Trump has already made up his mind to pull out of the UN Paris climate agreement

As Others Plot the Renewables Revolution, Trump Walks Backwards to Drill Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

As energy pioneers disrupt that market towards clean tech, Trump and his fossil fuel buddies cling to a by-gone age of fossil fuels. But we must not let them destroy America's "crown jewels" in what could be one of the last destructive acts of the hydrocarbon age

Environmental Protection Agency to be “Sledgehammered” in Budget

As the White House prepares to announce its first full budget later today, as predicted the Environmental Protection Agency and other measures to protect the nation's air, water and health, are firmly in Trump’s sights.

“Fossil fuels have lost. The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet”

“Fossil fuels have lost,” argues Eddie O’Connor, chief executive of Irelands’s Mainstream Renewable Power company, before adding: “The rest of the world just doesn’t know it yet.”

We are on cusp of “deepest, most consequential disruption of transportation in history”

“We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most consequential disruption of transportation in history.” Within ten years, we may witness a radical technological shake up in the way we drive as people switch from petrol and diesel engines to self-drive electric vehicles.

Comey Sacking: Just Don’t Mention Russia (or Exxon, the Arctic and Oil)

Washington DC is still reeling this morning with the news that Donald Trump yesterday sacked FBI director, James Comey. Ostensibly, the White House is saying that Comey’s firing is all about his botched investigation into Clinton’s emails. But everyone knows that is not the truth.