Politics
Six Charts Show Trump Didn’t Get His Way on Climate
Reviving coal isn’t the president’s only failed promise on climate and energy.
A Trump rally in Charleston, West Virginia, in 2018.
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The 45th president’s stance on climate change was established long before he entered the White House. It’s a hoax, he argued, and fossil fuel is an unequivocal good for the nation. Trump bashed renewable energy on the campaign trail—wind turbines are “ killing all of the eagles,” he once claimed—and vowed to remove the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Four years later, things haven’t exactly moved in Trump’s direction.