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President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a press conference on January 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson via Getty Images)
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Activists gather outside Sen. Michael Bennet's office in Denver to oppose President Trump's nominee for EPA Administrator, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, January 23, 2017. (RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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China's President Xi Jinping (R) with US President Barack Obama in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Climate change deal struck at the COP21 Climate Conference in Le Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. (Arnaud BOUISSOU/COP21/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Russell Girsh, a floor hand for Raven Drilling, helps line up a pipe while drilling for oil in the Bakken shale formation on July 23, 2013 outside Watford City, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
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A Chinese man wears a mask as he waits to cross the road near the CCTV building during heavy smog on November 29, 2014 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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COP20 President and Peruvian Minister of Environment Manuel Pulgar slams his mallet on December 14, 2014, during the marathon UN talks in Lima. (CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images)
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Brigham McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
