The president's comment comes after the administration tightened federal permitting for renewables last month.

These are the cheapest source of new electricity, and are generally cheaper than running existing coal-burning power plants

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This doesn’t really surprise me from Trump. Why would he care about global warming? If some coal and oil people stroke his ego a bit of course he will sacrifice global climate for them.

    It does surprise me that there’s any support for this amongst his base though.

    Here in Australia our conservative party was slaughtered at the last election. There were a number of reasons but a key reason is their poor position on climate change. Now with their party decimated they’re trying to re-brand and bounce back. Their big idea? Discard carbon emission goals. Fuck trying to make everything more efficient, who would want that right?