Why Trump’s Middle East trip is going to be very different this time
Trump is in the Middle East for his first major overseas trip of his second term. Deals are high on his agenda.
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President Donald Trump’s second term has begun with sweeping changes, just as the candidate promised: tariffs instituted against allies and adversaries alike, budgets and programs cut, and entire agencies shuttered.
The US State Department's Office of Global Change represents the US in climate negotiations and helps implement the country's climate change policy.
Top energy industry figures converge on Houston this week for their biggest gathering since Donald Trump returned to the White House to champion fossil fuels and undo Joe Biden's climate legacy.
President Donald Trump has made energy a clear focus for his second term in the White House. Having campaigned on an “America First” platform that highlighted domestic fossil-fuel growth, the reversal of climate policies and clean energy incentives advanced by the Biden administration, and substantial tariffs on key US trading partners, he declared an “energy emergency” on his first day in office.
Biden's most recent climate initiatives are all but certain to be short-lived, mostly thanks to an obscure law that tends to come into play every four years.
Donald Trump is creating a National Energy Council that he says will establish U.S. “energy dominance” around the world.