After teasing and tormenting his fellow world leaders and pledging an announcement only sometime this week, finally on Thursday – in the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by anti-environmentalists for the sort of bathetic display which has come to characterise every administrative ‘success’ – Donald Trump confirmed that he is pulling the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement….
When Ken Bone, looking comfortable in a chunky red cable-knit sweater with a handy zip, became an internet sensation after posing a question on energy policy towards the close of the second presidential debate, the whooping adulation and flurry of memes which followed were less inevitable than a hasty and spiteful backlash. For the record, Ken – a coal plant operator from…
When Andrea Leadsom became Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change last year, serving under Secretary of State Amber Rudd, she recalled asking her new department two crucial questions. In her own words: ‘When I first came to this job one of my two questions was ‘Is climate change real?’ and the other was ‘Is hydraulic fracturing safe?’ And…
