{"id":426929,"date":"2025-09-15T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426929\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:42:12","slug":"trump-lieutenants-tell-europe-to-stop-worrying-about-climate-change-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426929\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lieutenants tell Europe to stop worrying about climate change \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wright, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/16\/chris-wright-energy-secretary-trump-00189456\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a former oil man<\/a>, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had been exaggerated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]oday your chance of dying from [an] extreme weather event is the lowest we have in recorded history, and 20 percent of kids record nightmares about climate change,&#8221; Wright said at a press conference on Friday, without citing the source of these statistics. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So we have got people very afraid of something that&#8217;s a real issue, but we overhyped it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged countries to stop subsidizing renewable energy because it was having little impact on emissions, but was costly for industry. <\/p>\n<p>In the U.K. earlier in the week he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cqlz5p314z0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the BBC<\/a> artificial intelligence would help solve climate change by cracking the problem of harnessing nuclear fusion to generate electricity in a decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has among the most stringent climate rules in the world, but is under pressure to wind these back, both internally and from other countries like the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>European industry is struggling with high energy costs and intense competition from China, and business groups and politicians from the center to the far right <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/greenwashing-law-brussels-european-commission-political-explosion-anti-green-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have argued<\/a> green rules add additional costs that industry cannot afford.<\/p>\n<p>EU lawmakers are currently reviewing a proposal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/most-eu-firms-exempted-from-green-reporting-under-proposed-omnibus-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slash rules<\/a> requiring companies to report on their impacts on the environment, and member countries are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vote-on-eus-2040-climate-target-canceled-after-biggest-countries-block-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struggling to reach an agreement<\/a> on the EU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/739972\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2040 emissions target<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright, a former oil man, did not deny the existence of climate change, but said its effects had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,1395,2311,3854,2437,1442,32,1312,5398,35,728,2000,299,5187,474,4882,806,2817,714,2661,17792,2443,5442,6647,1218,1200,53,15,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-426929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-coal","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-competition","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-electricity","16":"tag-emissions","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-environment","19":"tag-eu","20":"tag-europe","21":"tag-european","22":"tag-finance","23":"tag-financial-stability","24":"tag-industry","25":"tag-intelligence","26":"tag-joe-biden","27":"tag-oil","28":"tag-paris-climate-agreement","29":"tag-regulation","30":"tag-renewable-energy","31":"tag-stability","32":"tag-steel","33":"tag-tax","34":"tag-technology","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115209787535156980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}