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"Trump promised to scrap #climate laws if #US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

#Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse #pollution rules among other pitches

#DonaldTrump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s #environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

In front of more than 20 executives, including from #Chevron, #Exxon and #OccidentalPetroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the #GulfOfMexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan #Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car #pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural# gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.

“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.""

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation

#USPolitics #Election2024 #BigOil #FossilFuel #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Klima #Klimakrise

"Trump promised to scrap #climate laws if #US oil bosses donated $1bn – report

#Trump promised to 20 executives at Mar-a-Lago dinner to increase oil drilling and reverse #pollution rules among other pitches

#DonaldTrump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US oil bosses last month, proposing that they give him $1bn for his White House re-election campaign and vowing that once back in office he would instantly tear up Joe Biden’s #environmental regulations and prevent any new ones, according to a bombshell new report.

According to the Washington Post, the former US president made his jaw-dropping pitch, which the paper described as “remarkably blunt and transactional”, at a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home and club.

In front of more than 20 executives, including from #Chevron, #Exxon and #OccidentalPetroleum, he promised to increase oil drilling in the #GulfOfMexico, remove hurdles to drilling in the Alaskan #Arctic, and reverse new rules designed to cut car #pollution. He would also overturn the Biden administration’s decision in January to pause new natural# gas export permits which have been denounced as “climate bombs”.

“You’ll get it on the first day,” Trump said, according to the Post, citing an unnamed dinner attendee.""

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation

#USPolitics #Election2024 #BigOil #FossilFuel #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Klima #Klimakrise