Oil Industry Licks Its Chops for Potential Trump Win as Climate Experts Sound Alarm

As hundreds of international climate scientists predict global warming will blaze past a dangerous threshold, the oil and gas industry is preparing for a potential second Donald Trump presidency with a slate of executive orders ready to be signed on Day One. Politico spoke with a half-dozen lawyers and lobbyists within the fossil fuel industry who said executive orders were being drafted in case Trump is re-elected. The goal of the orders would be to roll back some of the Biden administration’s most progressive environmental regulations, such as halting natural...