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As California Burns, Trump Proposes to Rip Up Landmark Climate Laws

Later today the Trump Administration will propose ripping up climate legislation to save dirty coal jobs at the same time as California burns out of control from wildfires, made worse by climate change.

As Caribbean Scientists Call for Urgent Climate Action, Trump Nominates Coal Lobbyist for Top EPA Job

As scientists from the Caribbean call for urgent action on climate change, Trump nominates a known climate denier and coal lobbyist to help lead the EPA. The President was criticised for throwing paper towels on the island of Puerto Rico last week. But he is doing much worse. He is throwing away the island’s future.

Vive la France!

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.

The “Expendables” Fight Back In Toxic Coal Ash Suit

"I call them ‘the expendables'. These men were treated like collateral damage, and they fell between the cracks in this toxic place.”

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.

Trump’s energy week looks a lot like his health care bill. Disastrous.

Trump's energy week and health care bill have a lot in common. Both would redistribute wealth up from ordinary Americans to the wealthiest. Both would make people sick. Both would cost lives.

Interior budget boosts fossil fuels, cuts renewables funding

In a huge industry giveaway, Trump’s Department of Interior budget increases funding for oil, gas, and coal expansion by more than $34 million – and slashes renewable energy by at least $15 million.

Trump’s Interior budget: More drilling, more mining, more handouts

The myth that opening up more public lands and waters for fossil fuel production will result in a windfall for America is dead wrong. The only windfall from this production is enjoyed by oil, gas, and coal executives.