Under Trump, US adds fuel to a heating planet

The Four Corners Power Plant outside of Fruitland, N.M., on Oct. 10, 2025. The president’s embrace of fossil fuels and withdrawal from the global fight against climate change will make it hard to keep warming at safe levels, scientists said. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times) By LISA FRIEDMAN By pulling the United States out of the main international climate treaty, seizing Venezuelan crude oil and using government power to resuscitate the domestic coal industry while choking off clean...