Evacuation alerts, state of emergency lifted near St. John’s as crews contain wildfire

O n the first day of Donald Trump’s second term in office, he pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement—for the second time. Two weeks later, he began purging anything to do with climate change from US government websites. Five months after that, he knifed the fossil fuel industry’s competition with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on July 4. That bill cancels most of the tax credits for renewable energy production that had been established under former president Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. According to the UK-based climate organization Carbon...