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![]() Kate AronoffThe Intercept |
As the Inflation Reduction Act progressed through the Senate last week to great acclaim, the House of Representatives quietly received a bill that...
Walking along the narrow shoulder of a busy road in Brandenburg state—about twenty miles outside of Berlin—you’d be hard-pressed to know...
Amid all the triumphant tweets and press releases about the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate provisions Monday morning were a few reflections...
It’s a bit hard to get a handle on what’s actually happening with the Inflation Reduction Act. The Senate has seemingly miraculously agreed to a...
“This is an emergency, an emergency,” President Biden reiterated against a scorched earth Massachusetts background on Wednesday, referring to the...
Heat waves aren’t glamorous. While wildfires and hurricanes offer awe-inspiring images and B-roll for cable news stories about rising temperatures,...
On the one hand, the Supreme Court has opened the door to the destruction of the administrative state and limited the EPA’s ability to regulate...
On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision to limit the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gasses from the power sector using a...
On Wednesday, Joe Biden called on Congress to enact a three month pause in the gas tax, a “holiday” that would result in an 18 cent savings on...
Last week, Politico reported that Joe Manchin opposes making clean energy tax credits “direct pay.” If that sounds like another impossibly wonky...
In its quest to find someone to blame for high gas prices, the White House has zeroed in on a new villain: oil refiners. In a letter this week—as...
Last month, ExxonMobil published its annual Worldwide Giving Report, listing the charities and STEM programs to which the multinational oil company...
At its Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, the Biden administration unveiled a “U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate...
Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act—which affirms the New York Power Authority’s ability to build publicly-owned renewables, and sets a...
On Thursday, the GOP’s Energy, Climate and Conservation Task Force announced a six-pillar plan for how the Republican Party will address climate...
Preparing for a future in which Democrats lose the midterms without having passed climate legislation, green groups have begun to emphasize a line...
After nine years of conservative rule that turned Australia into an international pariah on climate, you could almost hear environmentalists’...
How far does an incumbent Democrat have to go to lose the endorsement of their party’s leadership? That’s the question everyone should be asking...
Elon Musk threw a fit last week. The proximate cause, this time, was his company Tesla getting booted from the S&P’s “ESG index.” The ESG index...
The United States will be asking a lot of its electric grid over the coming decades. Everything from home heating to transportation will need to move...
Before attending a conference for climate deniers a few years back, I received two pieces of advice from researchers who frequent that circuit:...
With every new inflation report, the Biden administration seems to get even more laser-focused on a single goal: making gas cheaper. Its strategy so...
As the country focused last week on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s expected decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Senate pushed through...
Being a climate reporter over the last few months has involved a fair amount of déjà vu. Once again, Joe Manchin has a list of various...
Government support could be the deciding factor in whether a new generation of climate-damaging infrastructure gets built.
In the years since the Paris Climate Agreement was brokered, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America have poured a combined $789 billion into...
“This is the decade we must make decisions that will avoid the worst consequences of a climate crisis,” President Biden told the world leaders he...
If you live in the United States, chances are you missed the fact that the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are convening in Washington,...
Last night, Reuters reported that White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy plans to step down from her post as the country’s de facto...
Later this month, the second round of runoffs will see a rematch between French President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, standard-bearer of the...
Last fall, the House Oversight Committee convened to grill oil and gas CEOs about their funding of climate disinformation. Democrats asked the CEOs...
Between the year when Robert Pattinson starred in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the year he starred in The Lighthouse, the planet emitted an...
Earlier this month, ExxonMobil made headlines for loudly and proudly exiting Russia in protest over its government invading Ukraine—even though...
With prospects for comprehensive climate legislation looking dim, a number of Congressional Democrats and several dozen progressive groups are set...
This spring, Colombia could elect its first progressive president. In primary elections earlier this month—held for left-wing, centrist, and...
On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston. The following Monday, after long declining to state his...
As gas prices climbed to over $4 per gallon in the U.S. and oil traded at highs of $130 per barrel this week amid war in Europe, a new report from...
CERAWeek 2022 by S&P Global, this year’s annual confab for oil and gas executives, features a lot of two things: reverent references to the crisis...
This week, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP announced they would step back from their longstanding business helping pump the products that make up 40...
As attentions were mostly focused on Ukraine yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a nearly 3,700 page report arguing in...
The winners of Vladimir Putin’s cruel, imperialist war on Ukraine are few and far between. But some of them could be found on an upbeat earnings...
As world leaders settled into their digs in Glasgow last October for the climate conference known as COP26, Bank of England head turned sustainable...