Daily on Energy: SoCal wildfires, failed Alaska oil and gas lease sale, and Heinrich versus Lee - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier this morning announced the state has secured federal assistance to respond to all three fires.
48% : Brad Keithley, a former oil and gas attorney in Alaska, also told the outlet he even expects many companies will wait to make a bid on leases in the refuge until Trump is back in office.
47% : Exxon Mobil chairman and CEO Darren Woods has also pushed for Trump to stay in the agreement.
34% : "While Trump is expected to leave the climate agreement, and put pressure on the EU to increase imports of U.S. oil, Hoekstra said he is hoping to engage further with the incoming administration on a number of issues like climate change.
33% : "We're gonna try and have a policy where no windmills are being built," Trump said.
32% : The details: EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra made the warning in a recent interview with Reuters, saying a withdrawal from the U.S. "would be a serious blow for international climate diplomacy.
29% : Yesterday, during a press conference at Mar-A-Lago, Trump said wind turbines litter the landscape in the U.S., calling it a "garbage in a field."
27% : "UNITED STATES PARIS WITHDRAWAL WOULD BE MAJOR 'BLOW,' EU WARNS:
26% : Pressure to stay: Since winning the presidential election, Trump has been facing increasing pressure from allies, and the oil and gas industry, to stay in the Paris Agreement.
25% : "He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt, by giving it less water (it didn't work!), but didn't care about the people of California," Trump wrote.
23% : European wind stocks dropped today after Trump protested the offshore wind industry and vowed to halt the construction of wind farms.
19% : "I am extremely disappointed that Chairman Lee has scheduled the first Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing over my objection and before basic information has been given to the Committee," Heinrich said in a statement.

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