The cream of the American elite gathered at the Capitol stood up when Donald Trump resumed his campaign slogan on Monday, January 20, during his inauguration: “We’re going to drill, drill. » In a speech whose word “climate” was absent, the president reiterated his credo in favor of massive hydrocarbon extraction and signed a decree in the evening declaring the“national energy emergency”. “We have something no other manufacturing nation will ever have: the largest amount of oil and gas of any country in the world. And we’re going to use it again and again. We will lower prices, refill our strategic reserves to the brim, and export American energy around the world. We will become a wealthy nation again, and it is this liquid gold beneath our feet that will help us get there.”assured Donald Trump, who vowed to put an end to the Green New Deal, Joe Biden’s energy transition program.
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In the evening, in front of fans gathered in a sports venue in Washington, he signed two decrees: the first declaring for the second time the exit from the Paris agreement on climate and the end of American financing, the second notifying this decision at the United Nations. The United States must give one year’s notice before leaving this non-binding agreement.
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