The Energy Department’s number two official sought to reassure an international audience at the COP29 conference that the US won’t abandon its climate goals, despite the election of President-elect Donald Trump.
One source of confidence is the fact that 70% of the nearly $100 billion the Energy Department got for clean energy and grid development projects under the infrastructure and climate laws will have been committed by the time Trump takes office, David Turk, deputy secretary of energy, said at the UN climate change conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.
“That money will be out the …