Dhaka, July 21 -- Ever since Donald Trump began his second presidency, he has used an "invented" national energy emergency to help justify expanding oil, gas and coal while slashing green energy - despite years of scientific evidence that burning fossil fuels has contributed significantly to climate change, say scholars and watchdogs.
It's an agenda that in only its first six months, has put back environmental progress by decades, they say.
Trump's skewed and unscientific energy priorities have come even as climate-change related weather disasters from huge floods in Texas to giant California fires have increased, and as Trump regulators are clamping down on spending for alternative fuels and weather research.
As the death toll from the ...