How Trump Perverts 'Energy Independence'

In a campaign in which energy was almost entirely ignored, our unlikely president-elect vows that “the Trump Administration will make America energy independent,” echoing his campaign promises to work on behalf of domestic fossil fuel producers by increasing oil leases on public lands, shredding environmental and health regulations, rejecting the Paris Climate Action Plan, and boosting the flailing coal industry. Or as Donald Trump put it in May, “Every dollar of energy we don’t explore here is a dollar of energy that makes someone else rich over there.”