Trump's win upends climate fight
Once-ascendant greens prepare for battle, while oil, gas and coal expect a bright future.
By Alex Guillén, Elana Schor, Esther Whieldon and Eric Wolff
11/12/16 07:40 AM EST
Supporters of President Barack Obama’s energy agenda are scrambling to adjust to the looming Donald Trump era — with climate activists girding for battle while some green industry groups hope to appeal to the president-elect’s love of commerce.
Meanwhile, fossil fuel producers are facing the best of all possible worlds, with expectations high that Trump will loosen restrictions on coal, rip up Obama’s climate regulations, walk away from last year’s Paris global warming accord and name oil and gas executives to his Cabinet. Even the Keystone XL oil pipeline appears set for a resurrection, an unexpected turnaround for a project that Obama killed to environmentalists’ cheers a year ago last Sunday.
Both sides confront a much different world than they had expected to face under Hillary Clinton, who promised to build on Obama’s agenda with tightened limits on fracking and the installation of 500 million solar panels. Wind and solar have boomed under Obama, with sun-generated electricity expanding 30-fold since 2009.
Now, for some environmentalists, the road ahead looks bleak.
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