An Easier Way to Fight Inflation and Climate Change: Price Controls

As the Inflation Reduction Act progressed through the Senate last week to great acclaim, the House of Representatives quietly received a bill that...

Tesla’s German Gigafactory Demonstrates the Difficulty of Delivering Green Industrial Jobs

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...

The Bitter Triumph of the Inflation Reduction Act

Amid all the triumphant tweets and press releases about the Inflation Reduction Act and its climate provisions Monday morning were a few reflections...

The Manchin Climate Deal Is Both a Big Win and a Deal With the Devil

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...

Biden’s Hesitance to Declare a Climate Emergency Is a Bad Sign

“This is an emergency, an emergency,” President Biden reiterated against a scorched earth Massachusetts background on Wednesday, referring to the...

Watching American Democracy Melt

Heat waves aren’t glamorous. While wildfires and hurricanes offer awe-inspiring images and B-roll for cable news stories about rising temperatures,...

The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling Was the Kicker in a Week of Terrible Climate News

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...

The Silver Lining in the Supreme Court’s Decision to Limit Carbon Emission Regulations

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...

Inflation Is Scrambling Joe Biden’s Brain

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...

Joe Manchin’s Quest to Keep Clean Energy Tax Credits Broken

Last week, Politico reported that Joe Manchin opposes making clean energy tax credits “direct pay.” If that sounds like another impossibly wonky...

Biden Wrote a Stern Letter to Oil Refiners. His Government Should Take Over the Industry Instead.

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...

Objective Analysis, Sponsored by ExxonMobil

Last month, ExxonMobil published its annual Worldwide Giving Report, listing the charities and STEM programs to which the multinational oil company...

The White House Will “Partner” With Caribbean Countries on Climate Change—Just as Long as They Don’t Ask for Too Much Money

At its Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week, the Biden administration unveiled a “U.S.-Caribbean Partnership to Address the Climate...

Why Did Democrats and Solar Companies Just Kill a Climate Bill in New York?

Last week, the Build Public Renewables Act—which affirms the New York Power Authority’s ability to build publicly-owned renewables, and sets a...

The Republicans’ New Climate Plan Is Really an Old Plan for Destroying the Planet

On Thursday, the GOP’s Energy, Climate and Conservation Task Force announced a six-pillar plan for how the Republican Party will address climate...

If Democrats Can’t Pass Climate Legislation in New York, We’re All Doomed

Preparing for a future in which Democrats lose the midterms without having passed climate legislation, green groups have begun to emphasize a line...

“The Climate Wars Are Over” in Australia? Not Even Close.

After nine years of conservative rule that turned Australia into an international pariah on climate, you could almost hear environmentalists’...

Henry Cuellar Is the Perfect Symbol of What’s Wrong With the Democratic Party

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 Is the Newest Acolyte of the Right’s Critical Energy Theory Nonsense

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...

Why Your Utility Company Sucks

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...

The Buffalo Shooter and the Rise of Ecofascist Extremists

Before attending a conference for climate deniers a few years back, I received two pieces of advice from researchers who frequent that circuit:...

Why the Biden Administration’s Plan to Fix Gas Prices Isn’t Working

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...

Anti-China Bills Aren’t the Climate Solution Democrats Think They Are

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...

Is Joe Manchin Worth Compromising With Anymore?

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...

If We’re Going to Give Handouts to Oil and Gas, Let’s Attach Strings

Government support could be the deciding factor in whether a new generation of climate-damaging infrastructure gets built.

Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo Vote to Keep Financing Fossil Fuels

In the years since the Paris Climate Agreement was brokered, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America have poured a combined $789 billion into...

How Biden Can Help the Climate on Earth Day—Without Congress

“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...

The Global South Is Confronting a Debt Crisis and the IMF Is Responding With Half-Measures

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,...

A Purely Speculative List of Reasons Why Gina McCarthy Might Be Leaving the White House

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...

Marine Le Pen’s Climate Policy Has a Whiff of Ecofascism

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...

Biden’s Quest for Energy Independence Is Taking America in the Wrong Direction

Democrats Worried About Gas Prices Are Begging Oil Companies to Drill More

Last fall, the House Oversight Committee convened to grill oil and gas CEOs about their funding of climate disinformation. Democrats asked the CEOs...

Why Is the U.N.’s Climate Panel Tiptoeing Around Fossil Fuels?

Between the year when Robert Pattinson starred in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the year he starred in The Lighthouse, the planet emitted an...

Republicans Say “Woke” Wall Street Is Boycotting Fossil Fuels. The Numbers Prove Otherwise.

Because Oil Drilling Isn’t Destructive Enough, ExxonMobil Is Getting Into Bitcoin Mining, Too

Earlier this month, ExxonMobil made headlines for loudly and proudly exiting Russia in protest over its government invading Ukraine—even though...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey Have a Tough New Climate Pledge for Midterm Candidates

With prospects for comprehensive climate legislation looking dim, a number of Congressional Democrats and several dozen progressive groups are set...

Reducing Our Reliance on Oil Will Increase Our Quality of Life

Colombia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Freaking Out About Presidential Front-Runner Gustavo Petro

This spring, Colombia could elect its first progressive president. In primary elections earlier this month—held for left-wing, centrist, and...

The Fight in Washington Over the Fed’s Climate Policy Is Just Heating Up

Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin’s Nomination

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...

The Oil Crisis Is Making Fossil Fuel Executives Cocky and Vengeful

Oil Companies Are Making a Fortune From Soaring Prices. Congressional Democrats Want to Take Some of It Back

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...

The U.S. Bans Russian Oil. Big Energy Shrugs.

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...

Exxon, Shell, and BP Say They’re Leaving Russia. Hold Your Applause.

This week, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP announced they would step back from their longstanding business helping pump the products that make up 40...

Authoritarian Nationalism—and Western Militarism—Are Climate Problems

As attentions were mostly focused on Ukraine yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a nearly 3,700 page report arguing in...

Vultures Are Circling the Ukraine Crisis

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...

Replace the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline With Renewables

Never Believe a Bank’s Net-Zero Pledge

As world leaders settled into their digs in Glasgow last October for the climate conference known as COP26, Bank of England head turned sustainable...

Fossil Fuel Companies Have the Nerve to Claim That Taxing Them Will Hurt the Climate

The United Kingdom’s energy regulator announced last week that it would lift its cap on energy prices by 54 percent. Fuel prices are now likely...

Why Are Fossil Fuel Firms and Senate Republicans So Afraid of Sarah Bloom Raskin?

On Thursday, Sarah Bloom Raskin will go before the Senate Banking Committee for her confirmation hearing to become the vice chair for supervision...