CLIMATE CHANGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “As President Donald Trump contemplates whether to make good on his campaign promise to yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord, an unlikely lobbying force is hoping to talk him out of it: oil and coal producers.
A pro-Paris bloc within the administration has recruited energy companies to lend their support ahead of a high-level White House meeting Tuesday to discuss the global pact to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions, according to two people familiar with the effort who asked not to be identified.
Exxon Mobil Corp., previously led by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, reiterated its support in a letter to the White House solicited by White House energy adviser G. David Banks. The oil and natural gas giant argued the U.S. slashed its carbon emissions to 20-year lows because of greater use of natural gas, and ‘this success can be replicated globally’ as part of the Paris deal. Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc also have endorsed the pact.
‘BP welcomed the Paris agreement when it was signed, and we continue to support it,’ said Geoff Morrell, a company spokesman. ‘It’s possible to provide the energy the world needs while also addressing the climate challenge.’ Shell spokesman Curtis Smith said the company remains ‘strongly in favor’ of the agreement.”
-Jennifer A Dlouhy, “Exxon and Shell Join Ivanka Trump to Defend Paris Climate Accordt,” Bloomberg Magazine, April 17, 2017 11:30am