Trump the environmentalist? How his Iran war exposed the fragility of dirty energy

Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security Of all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist. Trump is the “greatest gift” to the environmental movement, argued Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, due to the fallout from the US-Israel war on Iran . Continue reading...

Originally reported by The Guardian US by Oliver Milman. Read the full story at the source.