It’s not just ‘drill, baby, drill’ for oil and gas, it’s also ‘dig, baby, dig’ for coal. President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to promote fossil fuels, weaken pollution regulations and reverse President Biden’s economy-hobbling climate agenda, were key domestic issues that helped win him the presidency for the second time. But implementing them will have a significant impact on the rest of the world – particularly Australia which, like the US, sees Asia as a market for what will be an expanding, rather than contracting, US fossil-fuel industry.
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