Even Exxon Wants Trump To Stick With Paris Climate Accord

The very fact that Exxon so strongly endorses the international agreement points to its weaknesses

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Exxon Mobil's Billings Refinery in Billings, Mont. (AP/Matthew Brown)

When President Donald J. Trump announced Tuesday that he was walking back on a key plank of the U.S. plan to live up to the Paris Climate Agreement, many were angry but few were surprised. The surprise came on Wednesday as it emerged that Trump’s decision to roll back the Clean Power Plan — which makes it “virtually impossible for the U.S.

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Documents Reveal Norweigan Officials Teamed With Oil Lobby To Stop Ban On Arctic Oil Drilling

This comes as the Norwegian government faces legal action from NGOs – including Greenpeace – over its decision to offer new drilling licenses of the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.

Zachary Davies Boren
By Zachary Davies Boren
Two Walrus surface in front of the Arctic Sunrise, outside of a Walrus colony/ haul out which is on the west side of Kvitøya, Svalbard archipelago.

Norwegian officials are lobbying to kill an EU resolution calling for an end to offshore oil drilling in Arctic waters, according to documents obtained by Energydesk. A letter from Norwegian MP Eirik Siversten – who leads the delegation for Arctic parliamentary cooperation – urges members of the European Parliament “to delete in the plenary

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Will Trump’s Climate Team Accept The ‘Social Cost of Carbon’?

The nation’s top science panel has just sketched a clearer way to set a fair price today for cutting tomorrow’s climate risks. Some of Trump’s advisers say the price should be zero.

Andrew Revkin
By Andrew Revkin
Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

(ANALYSIS) --- President-elect Donald Trump and members of his proposed cabinet and transition team have taken aim at many of President Obama's climate and clean-energy policies, programs and legacies 2014 from the Paris Agreement to the Clean Power Plan. But there's probably no more consequential and contentious a target for the incoming

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Trump And The Climate: His Hot Air On Warming Is Far From the Greatest Threat

Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has frightened many with his embrace of fossil fuels. What’s truly scary, scientists and others say, is how much larger the problem is than one American president.

Andrew Revkin
By Andrew Revkin
President-elect Donald Trump waves to supporters during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday, Dec. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

(ANALYSIS) --- President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course President Obama made a cornerstone of his eight years in the White House. "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop," Trump tweeted a year ago. In recent weeks, Trump doubled

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Norway Sued Over Violation Of Paris Climate Agreement

NGOs Nature & Youth and Greenpeace Nordic have launched an unprecedented lawsuit against the Norwegian government over its decision to expand oil drilling in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea.

Sune Scheller
By Sune Scheller
Two Walrus surface in front of the Arctic Sunrise, outside of a Walrus colony/ haul out which is on the west side of Kvitøya, Svalbard archipelago.

The Paris Agreement is being put to the test. NGOs Nature & Youth and Greenpeace Nordic have launched an unprecedented lawsuit against the Norwegian government over its decision to expand oil drilling in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. Earlier this year, for the first time in more than two decades, Norway offered up vast new areas

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