Donald Trump, who has long called climate change as a “hoax”, is to waste no time in his plans to strip nature protections, ban wind turbines and drain every last drop of oil from US soil.Some have likened him to a “wrecking ball” for climate action.But perhaps things won’t be as bad as they fear.Yes, he has vowed to stop new “windmills” – his disdaining term for wind turbines – from being built offshore “from day one”, despite it being among the cheapest energy sources in the US.And, yes, he wants to gut environmental rules, roll back Joe Biden’s landmark green legislation that unleashed billions of clean energy incentives (the Inflation Reduction Act or IRA), and unplug all the stops on US “liquid gold” – oil.His actions will reverberate well beyond US borders, too.Team MAGA is also expected to wrench America out of the landmark Paris Agreement once again, which he says “kills the American economy”.More on Climate Change
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Related Topics:Climate ChangeDonald TrumpIt’s the world’s biggest global climate treaty, which has helped drastically lower global warming, and which Mr Biden swiftly re-joined.That means the second-biggest climate polluter would disappear from the global climate fight, just as we’re being warned how critical the next few years are for getting climate change under control.This translates to more violent floods and fires, quite likely in the US itself.
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America is not a climate saintMr Trump says the measures will “cut the price of energy and electricity in half within 12 months” and achieve US “energy dominance”.In fact, America already dominates: it’s the biggest producer of both oil and gas in the world, reaching record levels of oil under Mr Biden.X
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