NYT: Big Banks Quit Climate Change Groups Ahead of Trump’s Term – Several large U.S. financial institutions, including the Federal Reserve, have withdrawn

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/business/trump-climate-action-banks.html By Eshe Nelson As the second presidency of Donald J. Trump begins, America’s largest banks and asset managers have abandoned one of the most overt symbols of their commitment to reaching green goals: climate action networks. In the month leading up to Mr. Trump’s inauguration on Monday, the six largest U.S. banks, including JPMorgan and […]

CHEERS! POLITICO: Trump’s exit from the UN climate deal ‘signals the beginning of an aggressive agenda to undo U.S. climate policy’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/trumps-exit-climate-deal-means-00199406 By Sara Schonhardt, Zack Colman and Karl Mathiesen President Donald Trump declared Monday that he will withdraw once again from the 2015 Paris climate agreement — instantly isolating the U.S. from the global campaign to stem catastrophic warming. This time, Trump’s repudiation of the worldwide climate effort could bite deeper by taking effect more quickly and at a […]

Welcome back, President Trump! Morning in America: Our long national energy nightmare is over

https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=02e2394a9b&u=7cbc7dd79831a84c870f9842e&id=20f93f7c4a Oil Price (1/20/25) reports: “President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to unleash a flurry of executive orders later this afternoon, reportedly numbering around 200, to reignite his ‘America First’ agenda… According to Bloomberg, citing numerous sources, Trump plans to unleash new oil and gas development on federal lands while reversing the Biden-Harris administration’s de-growth climate regulations. ‘While many […]

President Trump is back! Will sign actions to pull US out of Paris climate agreement, promote fossil fuels & mineral mining

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/climate/trump-paris-agreement-energy-orders/index.html President Donald Trump will sign executive actions Monday that cement his intention to double down on fossil fuels and reverse America’s progress on climate change and clean energy, including his pledge to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Trump’s day-one actions come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s […]

Pielke Jr.: ‘California’s Insurance Crisis Guess what? It is not climate change’ – ‘The underlying problem here — policy, not climate’

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/californias-insurance-crisis By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: Dave Jones, California’s insurance commissioner from 2011 to 2018, explained California’s growing insurance crisis in 2023: Due to the failure to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. and globally, we are marching steadily to an uninsurable future. Jones sentiment is widely shared — Climate change is causing more […]