Revealed: Forecasts of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels soar in Trump’s first 100 days
Tariff chaos hampers Trump's pledge to drill, baby, drill', but analysis still shows surge in planet-heating emissions
Donald Trump's ambitions for the US to drill, baby, drill" for more fossil fuels have ironically been hampered by the economic chaos unleashed by his own tariffs, but the US is still on track to increase oil and gas extraction, causing a surge in planet-heating emissions, a new analysis shows.
The US was already the world's leading oil and gas power, producing more of the fossil fuels than any country in history during Joe Biden's administration. But Trump has sought to escalate this further, declaring an energy emergency" to open up more land and ocean for drilling and launching an unprecedented assault on environmental regulations in his first 100 days back in the White House.
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