Valerie Volcovici

Trump’s regulatory freeze has injected chaos and uncertainty into a number of lucrative American fisheries, according to Reuters interviews with industry groups and federal government employees.

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Musk's layoffs shrink workforce needed to help realize Trump's energy dominance agenda The Trump administration’s mass layoffs of federal workers have slowed the government’s ability to permit some new energy projects in a potential setback to President Donald Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda, according to state officials, lawmakers and agency representatives interviewed by Reuters.

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Trump pulls US out of key global climate assessment, sources say The Trump administration has halted the participation of U.S. scientists in key U.N. climate change assessments, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters, part of its broader withdrawal from climate change mitigation efforts and multilateral cooperation.

The Trump administration has pulled the US out of the @ipcc.bsky.social, the global scientific body responsible for assessing climate change, sources tell @valerievolc.bsky.social

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Bloomberg philanthropy to cover U.S. climate dues after Paris withdrawal Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy and other U.S. funders said on Thursday they will cover U.S. financial obligations to the UN climate framework after President Donald Trump called for the U.S. to withdraw - for a second time - from the Paris climate agreement.

Following Mike Bloomberg's decision to help fund the UN climate body after Trump's withdrawal, @lindakalcher.bsky.social shared her opinions about the engagement of other U.S. actors in international climate cooperation.

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Oil industry unlikely to rush to Alaska despite Trump's call to drill U.S. oil and gas companies are unlikely to expand development in Alaska and the Arctic following President Donald Trump's executive order enabling them to do so, company officials and industry representatives told Reuters, noting a future president could easily reverse Trump's move.

Trump threw open the doors for oil and gas drillers to develop in Alaska, but companies are unlikely to rush in just yet. W/ @valerievolc.bsky.social
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Trump's climate withdrawal creates rare discord with Big Oil U.S. oil and gas producers are thrilled that President Donald Trump wants to encourage domestic energy development but say his decision to withdraw the United States from international climate cooperation will not help their investment plans in the global transition to cleaner energy.

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Trump to withdraw from Paris climate agreement U.S. President Donald Trump will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, according to a White House document released on Monday.

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Earthquakes and blowouts undermine case for carbon storage in Texas Texas has seen surging interest from companies hoping to bury carbon dioxide in its oilfields, putting the state at the vanguard of a government-subsidized program to fight climate change.

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Biden pushes out over $100 billion in clean energy grants as term winds down

The administration hopes the spending milestone will help to continue the deployment of clean energy even after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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