Donald Trump
Obama Gives Half A Billion Dollars To UN Climate Fund
Barack Obama has transferred half a billion dollars to the UN’s Green Climate Fund, just three days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. The president-elect has promised to stop all payments to UN global warming programmes. But announcing the grant, John Kirby, the…
U.S. Solar Lobbying Group Names ‘Bridge Builder’ as New Leader
The U.S. solar industry’s top lobbying group named energy policymaker Abigail Ross Hopper as its new chief executive, pledging pragmatism as the sector prepares to work with an incoming president who has expressed doubts about its importance. Hopper joins the…
Barack Obama Bans Oil and Gas Drilling in Most of Arctic and Atlantic Oceans
Obama uses law that allows presidents to block sale of new offshore drilling and mining rights and makes it difficult for their successors to reverse decision. Barack Obama has permanently banned new oil and gas drilling in most US-owned waters…