When they awoke the morning after, climate advocates faced a new post-election reality they fear could set back global efforts to combat climate change. During the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to accelerate oil and gas production, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act and its incentives for clean energy technology, halt President Biden’s pause on LNG exports, and — once again — pull out of the Paris Agreement.
The climate advocates were dismayed to see fossil-fuel-friendly candidates in Ohio and Pennsylvania beat climate-minded incumbents in the U.S. Senate.
