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As can be the case with these technology investments, we’ve determined the technology is not going to be as cost-competitive as we had anticipated,
O’Neill said
There is little appetite for loss-leading, strategic or marginal green investments any more,
he saidPeak ESG has passed, and every oil and gas company is walking back from their uneconomic green opportunity pipeline,
he saidIt could further strengthen support for anti-climate policies in Europe and other regions,
he saidThe decisions that U.S. companies make about how much to grow oil production are first and foremost going to be determined by market signals,
says Jason Bordoff, who runs the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University
We didn't go back to horses, even though there was a strong horse lobby when cars came,
says Leah Seligmann, chief change catalyst and CEO at The B Team, a business group focused on climateWe’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, because they’re allowing vast numbers of people,
into the country, ... Trump said in response to questions from reporters, as he sat behind the Oval Office’s Resolute Desk on Monday
High costs of energy are unnecessary. They are by design. It is a cause of policy,
the adviser said
Energy prices permeate every single part of our economy,
a Trump adviser saidI can’t guarantee anything,
Trump told NBC NewsIt is crystal clear that his administration is all in to pad Big Oil Billionaire profits at the expense of our air, water, lands, climate, health, pocketbooks, and jobs."
But Tiernan Sittenfeld of the League of Conservation Voters said in a separate statement
Perhaps he’s made decisions to sort of suspend the threat of tariffs over a whole slate of countries. We will wait and see,
Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said
How many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost?”
Trump saidTrump’s declaration of a national energy emergency leverages a false premise to encourage expanded fossil fuel production at a time when the United States is already the top oil and gas producer in the world,
Wenonah Hauter, executive director of climate nonprofit Food and Water Watch, said in a statementWe applaud President Trump’s decisive action to maximize the benefits from our nation’s abundant and essential energy and to protect consumer choice for each and every American,
said the group’s president in a statement Karen HarbertTrump’s day-one orders reveal everything we need to know about where his administration’s loyalties lie,
said John Noel, deputy climate program director for the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace US[The ... The energy emergency declaration] … means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem and we do have that kind of emergency,
he said as he signed the order at the White House late on MondayWe have something that no other manufacturing nation will ever have, the largest amount of oil and gas of any country on Earth, and we are going to use it – let me use it,
Trump said in his inaugural addressHis actions will only increase expenses for everyone, through higher utility bills, greater pollution impacts, and the overwhelming costs of climate change-supercharged disasters – all falling disproportionately on low-income families and communities of color,
she saidWe will be a rich nation again, and it is that liquid gold under our feet that will help to do it,
Trump said during his inaugural address, referring to U.S. oil