French minister says U.S. energy
secretary has not signaled climate backpedalling
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[April 10, 2017]
ROME
(Reuters) - U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry has said nothing about the
U.S. backpedaling on climate change commitments, French Minister of
Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Segolene Royal said on
Monday. |
Former Texas Governor Rick Perry testifies before a Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee hearing on his nomination to be Energy
secretary at Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2017.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo |
In March U.S.
President Donald Trump signed an order to undo Obama-era climate
change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the
coal industry.
The order called into question U.S. support for an international
deal to fight global warming, prompting environmental groups to
call it dangerous and against the global trend toward cleaner
energy technologies.
"Contacts with the new minister are very friendly," she said,
adding the U.S. administration was in the process of elaborating
its new policies.
Segolene Royal was speaking on the sidelines of a G7 meeting on
energy in Rome.
(Reporting by Stephen Jewkes and Alberto Sisto)
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