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He is also likely to ease restrictions on the oil industry’s emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and to revoke Biden’s pause on increasing liquid petroleum gas exports.

The main UK sectors likely to be hit would be fishing, petroleum, and mining, which could see exports fall by around a fifth.

The CEO of the American Petroleum Institute issued a statement saying that “energy was on the ballot, and voters sent a clear signal that they want choices, not mandates.”

Trump pledged to the estimated 500,000 Pennsylvanians employed in the petroleum industry that if elected, “we will frack, frack, frack and drill, baby, drill.”

It imposed yet another batch of sanctions on Iran, this time cracking down on the so-called ghost ships, unmarked oil tankers Iran allegedly uses to export illicit petroleum products; fast-tracked to Israel an advanced ballistic missile air-defense system, known as THAAD; and launched air strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as a show of solidarity.