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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 oil companies go to great efforts to portray their forecasts as works of objective analysis of the future. They are not - they are self-serving descriptions of the futures the companies would like policymakers and investors to believe in.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has her first face to face meeting with President Trump tomorrow when she visits Washington.

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

Tomorrow the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which have been leading the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline, will take their fight to the oil-loving Trump Administration by marching on the White House.

A look at today's oil market exposes the hollow rhetoric surrounding the Keystone XL project. The project would exacerbate a supply glut at Cushing and is clearly not needed.

Trump’s botched celebration of Exxon comes while the President’s team works to dismantle environmental policies and institutions that were put in place to protect communities like those along the fence-lines of refineries and manufacturing plants in the Gulf Coast.

Of course Shell knew about climate change too. As Ken Saro-Wiwa once noted, instead of acting responsibly, Shell chose to inflict "genocide" against the people of the Niger Delta, instead. It has continued that path ever since, by continuing to burn oil and gas. And the rising waters of the Niger Delta are part of that crime.

Later today, Donald Trump will make his first address to Congress, where he is expected to outline an “historic increase in defence spending” at the expense of foreign aid and environmental protection programmes.