Trump Reshaped U.S. Climate Policy in One Month: August 2018
View on ClimateWire website"August was supposed to be a quiet month for climate politics. . . Instead, it may go down as a historic turning point in U.S. climate efforts. . . Dallas Burtraw, a research fellow at Resources for the Future, projects that power-sector emissions under Trump’s new plan will continue to decline. In his view, the real damage from Trump's proposals could come in the transportation and building sectors. All scenarios for deep de-carbonization of the economy largely rely on electrifying transportation, home heating and cooling. 'That is an embryonic trend right now,' Burtraw said, adding that the administration's moves have a major impact 'because it delays this trend toward electrification.'"
