Trump fossil-fuel push setting back green progress decades, critics warn

US president using invented' national energy crisis to justify expansion of coal, oil and gas, experts say

Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an invented" national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy - despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.

It's an agenda that in only its first six months, has put back environmental progress by decades, they say.