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life. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. Donald Trump's re-election is raising

questions about the U.S. role in global climate change initiatives. But NPR's Michael

Copley reports energy secretary, Jennifer

Granholm, tells the U.N. Climate Conference in Azerbaijan, the world will keep shifting to cleaner

sources of energy, no matter who's at the White House. Grandholm touted a climate law passed under President

Biden called the Inflation Reduction Act that's delivering big investments, including in Republican

districts. She also said

companies, along with states and cities, will keep taking steps to cut U.S. climate pollution

and called on other nations to strengthen their efforts. This is the time to accelerate,

to fill that gap that may be left by leadership in the United States. President-elect Trump

says he'll adopt policies to boost U.S. production of fossil fuels,

the main source of heat-trapping emissions.

And activists expect he'll pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement.

Michael Copley, NPR News.

In something of a reversal of his previous stance, House Speaker Mike Johnson is now saying he'll strongly request

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