US threatens to quit International Energy Agency

US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Tuesday threatened to pull America out of the International Energy Agency, whose work on deploying renewables conflicts with the pro-fossil-fuel policy of the Trump administration, Politico reports.

“If a large part of data reporting agencies devote themselves to these kinds of leftist fantasies … that can only distort their mission,” Wright told a conference at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris.

“We don’t need a net-zero scenario, that’s ridiculous, that’s never going to happen,” Wright continued.