62 oil and gas companies from around the world signed on to a UN-led partnership aimed at bolstering monitoring and reductions of the potent climate-warming gas.
Wyoming, Alaska and North Dakota have benefitted from multiple fossil fuel-related revenue streams. But the COVID-19 economic downturn has reduced energy demand, with uncertain prospects for the extent of its recovery.
“Imagine where we’d be if they knew what they were doing,” says David Doniger, climate lawyer and senior advisor to the NRDC Action Fund, when he talks about the Trump administration.
Pursuing an unrelenting fossil fuel agenda, Trump has scaled back or eliminated over 150 environment measures, expanded Arctic drilling and denied climate science.