Six Charts Show Trump Didn’t Get His Way on Climate and Energy

The 45th president’s stance on climate change was established long before he entered the White House. It’s a hoax, he argued, and fossil fuel is an unequivocal good for the nation. Trump bashed renewable energy on the campaign trail—wind turbines are “killing all of the eagles,” he once claimed—and vowed to remove the U.S. from the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Four years later, things haven’t exactly moved in Trump’s direction.

Natural gas and coal were the biggest sources of U.S. electricity before Trump was elected in 2016. Despite Trump’s promises to save coal, the U.S. last year consumed more ...