Promoting Coal at Climate Talks Seen as Unscientific U.S. Sideshow

U.S. officials will declare on the world stage Dec. 10 that “job-creating innovations” will ensure that fossil fuels can continue to be burned while allowing greenhouse gas emissions to decline, the U.S. State Department told Bloomberg Environment.

The Trump administration is expected to use the international climate talks to emphasize its pro-fossil fuels agenda and continue its snub of the Paris climate agreement by sending the opposite message on fossil fuels—that coal and natural gas have a bright future.

The U.S. will promote fossil fuels at the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...