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Trump donor fined for pollution leads a fight to end methane emission penalties
A powerful US oil and gas industry lobby group has drawn up detailed plans to kill off penalties for emitting methane, a potent planet-heating gas that’s increasing at the fastest rate in decades, with this effort led by a major donor…
Trump is the elephant in the room on climate targets
The US election result next week will influence the world’s global climate change action plans, including Australia. At The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit last week, an audience member asked…
Kamala Harris Pushed by Greens to Step Up Biden’s Climate Fight
Kamala Harris hasn’t laid out a detailed vision for addressing climate change and energy if she’s elected president — but she’s already getting plenty of advice. Environmentalists and former advisers have outlined their…
PAUL BLEDSOE on florida hurricanes & global climate change
cgtn america | October 9, 2024
Trump donor fined for pollution leads a fight to end methane emission penalties
A powerful US oil and gas industry lobby group has drawn up detailed plans to kill off penalties for emitting methane, a potent planet-heating gas that’s increasing at the fastest rate in decades, with this effort led by a major donor…
Trump is the elephant in the room on climate targets
The US election result next week will influence the world’s global climate change action plans, including Australia. At The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit last week, an audience member asked…
Kamala Harris Pushed by Greens to Step Up Biden’s Climate Fight
Kamala Harris hasn’t laid out a detailed vision for addressing climate change and energy if she’s elected president — but she’s already getting plenty of advice. Environmentalists and former advisers have outlined their…
Trump hasn’t helped working-class men — but Harris and Walz can
Former President Donald Trump makes many extravagant promises and claims on the campaign trail. But especially for his political base of working-class men, he delivered very little economically when in office…
How the ‘climate voter’ might matter in a down-to-the-wire US election
Despite its enormous implications, the climate crisis has so far mostly been a dormant issue in the US presidential election. Some hope the devastation wrought in quick succession by two major hurricanes will shake up the…
A Shift Among Democrats: Embrace Record Levels of Oil and Gas
JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels…
Economists agree another Trump term would ruin the US economy — will voters listen?
In recent weeks, the U.S. economy has gotten consistently good news. New data shows prices barely rose in August — just .1 percent — with the annual inflation rate now down to 2.2 percent. This allowed the Federal Reserve to lower…
As Hurricane Helene Hits Florida, Trump’s Climate Policy Ducks for Cover
A massive storm, Hurricane Helene, made larger and more destructive due to super-heated ocean temperatures caused by climate change, is due to slam into Florida Thursday. The enormity of this storm (and others like it) is partly the inevitable result…
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Paul Bledsoe is a former Clinton White House, US Senate, and Interior Department official, and a leading political and policy expert whose writing regularly appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and other leading outlets.
Paul is President of Bledsoe & Associates, a strategic public policy firm specializing in tax policy, energy, natural resources and climate change. He is also a Professorial Lecturer at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy.
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