BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 14, 2024
Darren Woods, the CEO of Exxon Mobil, has urged the next president not to overturn all of the Biden administration’s climate policies. He also urged Trump not to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate, which Trump did during his previous term in the White House. Woods, one of the only energy company executives to attend COP29, United Nations global climate negotiations currently happening in Azerbaijan, repeatedly noted that delaying action to reduce greenhouse emissions would only make it harder to address the challenges brought by our changing climate. Woods also discounted Trump’s pledge to expand oil and gas production in the U.S. Oil production is at a historic high in the U.S. and there is no current demand for more production. Trump should listen to Woods, an energy expert, when it comes to energy and climate policy.