With a new Trump administration set to get underway in a matter of months, advocates are worried that significant funding for some of Oregon's recent climate legislation could be at risk. Why it matters: Oregon lawmakers passed a package of bills in the 2023 session aimed at increasing the resilience of buildings in the state by incentivizing a transition to electrical appliances.
President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act appropriated $145.4 billion in spending for climate efforts. It's unclear how much of it the administration has protected from President-elect Donald Trump.
The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. on Tuesday discouraged President-elect Donald Trump from withdrawing the US from the landmark Paris climate pact, arguing that would mean forfeiting a chance to push for “common sense” carbon-cutting policy on the world stage.
The country swerved to the right. But individual states can push for climate change policies, the governor said.
The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States won’t throw the World Bank off course in meeting its climate targets, the anti-poverty lender’s President Ajay Banga said.
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva told a panel during the U.N. COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan that the global lender had worked with Trump during his previous term and looked forward to doing so again. "They have a mandate from the American people," she said.
The former congressman from New York is a strong supporter of Donald Trump and voted against certifying the 2020 election.
Trump’s shadow looms at climate summit: what COP29 could deliver
‘Science is still science’: US still committed to climate fight despite Trump’s win, Podesta says at COP29
America’s top climate diplomat John Podesta told foreign officials Monday that the U.S. remains committed to fighting climate change, even if President-elect Donald Trump isn’t. His comments came as the implications of last week’s election reverberate through the hallways of the global climate talks called COP29,
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US climate action won't end with Trump, envoy tells COP29
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In new term, Trump set to go after measures that are doing the most to fight climate changeThe election of Donald Trump as president for a second time and the Republican takeback of the U.S. Senate could undo many of the national climate policies that are most reducing
Conservative groups that have long rejected the science underpinning climate action are lining up behind a policy wish list that calls on the incoming Trump team to ax climate agreements, make coal a “preferred means of electricity” and immediately freeze spending tied to the 2022 climate law,
If a second Trump term is an epochal event for American democracy, so too is it for the global efforts to address climate change. Trump has a long history denying the science of climate, and will likely,
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