Luke Vargas

Ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement joined more than 190 countries around goals of limiting emissions and pursuing less carbon-intensive energy sources, Washington is no longer reading from the same playbook. It was a fact made clear when U.S.

Ten years after the Paris Climate Agreement joined more than 190 countries around goals of limiting emissions and pursuing less carbon-intensive energy sources, Washington is no longer reading from the same playbook. It was a fact made clear when U.S.

official Tommy Joyce addressed an energy security summit in London yesterday as he touted President Trump's focus on cultivating energy sources that he said the country had in abundance, the latest buzzword in energy policy.

official Tommy Joyce addressed an energy security summit in London yesterday as he touted President Trump's focus on cultivating energy sources that he said the country had in abundance, the latest buzzword in energy policy.

He compared that strategy of abundance to what he cast as a policy of scarcity under former President Biden.

He compared that strategy of abundance to what he cast as a policy of scarcity under former President Biden.

We oppose these harmful and dangerous policies. And surrounded by the heads of some of the world's largest renewable energy firms and the ministers who've embraced that industry, he called the process of making energy grids compatible with wind and solar exponentially more expensive and suggested renewables were a mirage that

We oppose these harmful and dangerous policies. And surrounded by the heads of some of the world's largest renewable energy firms and the ministers who've embraced that industry, he called the process of making energy grids compatible with wind and solar exponentially more expensive and suggested renewables were a mirage that

Those remarks help to explain two recent moves by the Trump administration that have made waves in the energy community —

Those remarks help to explain two recent moves by the Trump administration that have made waves in the energy community —

The first, last week, the Interior Department ordered energy company Equinor to stop work on a massive offshore wind project in New York, a step that trade groups and industry experts see as a chilling signal that even fully permitted projects bringing foreign investment into the U.S. aren't immune in Washington, where renewables growth is seen as a threat to America's dominance in fossil fuels.

The first, last week, the Interior Department ordered energy company Equinor to stop work on a massive offshore wind project in New York, a step that trade groups and industry experts see as a chilling signal that even fully permitted projects bringing foreign investment into the U.S. aren't immune in Washington, where renewables growth is seen as a threat to America's dominance in fossil fuels.

And second, as a part of tariff negotiations earlier this month, President Trump suggested he'd call off his trade war with Europe if the EU purchased $350 billion in U.S. energy products, the value of the bloc's trade surplus in goods, a suggestion that's ruffled feathers across a continent that's all too familiar with Russia's weaponization of energy during the Ukraine war.

And second, as a part of tariff negotiations earlier this month, President Trump suggested he'd call off his trade war with Europe if the EU purchased $350 billion in U.S. energy products, the value of the bloc's trade surplus in goods, a suggestion that's ruffled feathers across a continent that's all too familiar with Russia's weaponization of energy during the Ukraine war.

Marc Ferracci is France's Minister of Industry and Energy and told me Europe needs to break its dependence on foreign energy.

Marc Ferracci is France's Minister of Industry and Energy and told me Europe needs to break its dependence on foreign energy.

Veraci told me that sovereignty comes from staying local. In France's case, cutting ties with Russian gas, not deepening its dependence on U.S. gas, and trying to end reliance on clean energy technology from China. And that trend of staying local is one that Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, said.

Veraci told me that sovereignty comes from staying local. In France's case, cutting ties with Russian gas, not deepening its dependence on U.S. gas, and trying to end reliance on clean energy technology from China. And that trend of staying local is one that Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, said.

Said explains many of the energy security policies he heard this week.

Said explains many of the energy security policies he heard this week.