It appears that the biggest winners under Trump's executive orders are domestic oil and gas exploration and production companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. ( XOM ), Chevron Corp. ( CVX) and EOG Resources Inc. ( EOG ).
Groups working with businesses on climate action said they see no retreat from climate goals despite Donald Trump's pledge to end what he calls a "green scam."
For more than 15 years, the US federal government has slapped limits on greenhouse gas emissions based on a conclusion that planet-warming pollution imperils public health and welfare.
President Donald Trump on his first day in office again withdrew the U.S. from a landmark global pact to fight climate change. So what is the Paris Agreement? And what happens to it now?
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.
A price tag on carbon emissions, used across the federal government to write regulations and issue permits, could vanish in less than two months under an executive order President Donald Trump signed.
At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, acknowledged climate change is “real” and that greenhouse gasses are making the planet hotter—but stopped short of saying the agency must regulate them.
President Donald Trump signed several executive orders and rescinded others. From DEI to WHO and a national border emergency, here's what to know.
Some industry observers told ABC News that the ostensible softening toward Trump by big-tech corporations reflects a new business landscape that is both heavily influenced by the president-elect and increasingly defined by the development of energy-intensive artificial intelligence products.
With so much federal backtracking already underway, all eyes now turn toward states like ours to lead the effort against climate change.
Trump indicated he is likely to seek to repeal a $7,500 tax credit for new EV purchases approved by Congress as part of Biden's landmark 2022 climate law.