UN Sec. General Wants to Discuss Climate Change with Mr

That hope was reflected in a statement by The American Wind Energy Association following the election that said it was “ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump and his administration to ensure that wind power continues to be a vibrant part of the US economy”.

He also said he would “refocus” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to become less regulatory and pledged to cancel U.S. involvement in the Paris pact.

A few months before that, he wrote in a blog post that Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was “illegal” and lamented the gains likely to be incurred by “renewable energy producers” at the expense of coal and natural gas.

The implications of a Trump presidency are reverberating through the energy industry, with the new administration set to be decidedly more pro-fossil fuels than either the Obama administration or a Clinton administration would have been.

According to the Gazette-Mail, James Van Nostrand, director of the Center for Energy and Sustainable Development at the West Virginia University College of Law added: “In my view, the election is not going to have much impact on the prospects for the coal industry in West Virginia going forward, Environmental regulations were not significant drivers in the decline of the industry, and scaling them back is not going to revive it”.

As recently as 2012, 127 USA power plants burned more than 68.5 million tons of Kentucky coal.

(Ki-moon) “As the President of the United States, I am sure that he will understand this (the reality of climate change and the world’s acceptance of the importance of combating it), he will listen and he will evaluate his campaign remarks”. Who will lead key agencies? He can’t change the fact that both the market and the climate movement are aligned to replace coal plants with clean energy – almost 250 plants to date, with many more to come.

Utilities make plans for generating stations years in advance.

“If President-elect Trump is looking for a stimulus in energy he will find it in the solar and wind industries”, Brune said.

Although he did later say it was a joke, Trump tweeted that he thought climate change was a hoax.

Trump will not be inaugurated until January 20, however.

“Any regulation that is outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers or contrary to the national interest will be scrapped”, Trump said in a May statement. While the President-elect may face little opposition in repealing the Clean Power Plan and pulling the USA out of the Paris Climate Accord, repealing the tax breaks that support the growth of solar and wind power would pose a significant legislative challenge. The Trump administration could choose not to defend it or allow it to be struck down by the Supreme Court, which would likely feature a Trump-appointee filling Justice Antonin Scalia’s open seat.

As indicated above, Donald Trump can not yet interfere with USA environmental policies in his current capacity as president-elect. At various points, he’s condemned the prioritization of renewables and yet also included them in his vision of an energy-independent society.

The report, “Carbon Trap: How International Coal Finance Undermines the Paris Agreement and Clean Energy Deployment”, was released on Monday by the NRDC and the Oil Change International on the sidelines of 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP22) here. “Not one. We’ve got the ability to implement, we’re already the ones that enforce all the action at the state level”. “It’s now CLIMATE CHANGE”.

Mr Adow added: “It is too soon to accept U.S. climate action will stop, there are numerous forces within the United States, including states, cities and business, working hard to ensure America retains its leadership”. “Most of the states have been pushing for deeper investments in energy efficiency. Yep, they’re leading the way”.

After mentioning the importance of clean water and fighting disease, without linking those issues directly to climate concerns, he continued, “Perhaps we should be focused on developing energy sources and power production that alleviates the need for dependence on fossil fuels”.

For example, many Northeastern states have banded together to create their own cap-and-trade program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Aimed at reducing carbon emissions, that Environmental Protection Agency undertaking is central to the United States meeting its commitments under a new global climate accord, and is now tied up in a court challenge. And Hawaii plans to go 100 percent renewable by 2045.

Four Texans – including former Gov. Rick Perry and Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller – are being mentioned most often as potential members of a Trump administration. Mezouar said that he was “convinced that all parties will respect their commitments and stay the course in this collective effort” and that his office would work “in a spirit of inclusiveness and determination, particularly with the new American administration”. In other words, their plans were made in anticipation of policies by the current White House.