Oil Industry Licks Its Chops for Potential Trump Win as Climate Experts Sound Alarm

international climate scientists predict global warming will blaze past a dangerous threshold, the oil and gas industry is preparing for a potential seconda half-dozen lawyers and lobbyists within the fossil fuel industry who said executive orders were being drafted in case Trump is re-elected.

Oil industry lawyers have taken it upon themselves to fill the gap, drafting executive orders undoing Biden’s policies if Trump’s put back in the White House, according to Stephen Brown, a former lobbyist and director of energy consulting firm RBJ Strategies. “You’ll see a lot of Biden regulations that have come out in the past six months checked one way or another,” Brown told” to increase oil and natural gas production domestically in order to lower consumer energy costs, regardless of the environmental impact. Thethat “President Trump will once again exit the horrendously unfair Paris Climate Accords,” referring to the 2015 Paris Agreement which set a goal of capping global temperature increase to under 2°C, and aiming for a limit of 1.

The poll also asked the scientists why they thought the global response to climate change was not measuring up to stated goals. Nearly 75 percent cited a lack of political will, while 60 percent cited vested corporate interests — like the oil and gas industry insiders setting the table for a second Trump term.Emily Blunt Says She's 'Absolutely' Wanted to Throw Up After Kissing Certain Actors During Filming: 'I've Definitely Not Enjoyed Some of It.

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