"Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back jobs to struggling coal communities, and laid-off miners contributed to his presidential victory. But the reality is more complicated."
"President-elect Donald ... Trump's advisers are considering ways to bypass a theoretical four-year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy."
"Under President Trump, the US is expected to halt cash for climate-friendly development, holding back international action".
"The Windy City joins Philadelphia, Berkeley, San Francisco, Oakland, and Boulder to slap a levy on sodas."
"The mug-shot posters, pasted on walls and lampposts around Paris by an activist group during the United Nations climate talks last year, were hardly flattering. They depicted Myron Ebell, a climate contrarian, as one of seven 'climate criminals' wanted for 'destroying our future.'"
"In Trump’s potential cabinet picks, echoes of a Reagan-era wave of environmental deregulation."
"Trump certainly can’t dismantle climate action and the clean energy economy as quickly as he’s promised (day one), and in some cases, he won’t be able to do it at all. But here’s what’s on his hit list, along with an analysis of what he can and can’t do."
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The outcome of the 2016 election will have an enormous impact on environmental and climate policy both in the U.S. and across the globe. Join other NYC-based SEJ members to share ideas about different approaches to environmental and climate policy coverage in the final months of the Obama administration. SEJ President Bobby Magill (and your Meetup Group host) will also be on hand to hear your ideas about the future of SEJ as we look ahead to a new era of leadership with our incoming ED.
"In recent years, a number of communities in the state have passed local [fracking] bans, but the state Supreme Court struck them down. Activists then decided to try to change the constitution to allow local fracking bans. So the oil and gas industry then decided to try to make changing the constitution more difficult."
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