US push to dilute energy regulations as bailouts to fossil fuel firms

Trump's energy secretary Dan Brouillette promotes all fuels' free-market strategy at climate and sustainability summit

The US has argued for less regulation of the world's energy systems, speaking out against the policy interventions promoting clean energy that are central to a green recovery" from the coronavirus crisis.

Dan Brouillette, the US energy secretary, told a global summit of energy ministers, focused on sustainable recovery, that democracies should choose the free market over policies such as taxes, regulations and climate risk assessments on companies that would steer people away from some energy sources and in the direction of others".