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Biden Must Confront China’s Xi on Looming Climate Disaster
As Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping prepare to meet in San Francisco today, extreme weather events caused by rising temperatures are increasingly wreaking havoc at home and around the world, with new studies indicating that…
Sizing up Manchin’s legacy on energy, climate policy
Joe Manchin’s announcement Thursday that he plans to retire from the Senate caps off an extraordinary tenure marked by substantive policy wins but also high-profile clashes with fellow Democrats on energy and climate…
China announces plan for curbing methane emissions
China yesterday released an action plan for reducing methane emissions, pledging more “forceful” measures to tackle the potent greenhouse gas before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai later this month…
PAUL BLEDSOE On climate change
CGTN AMERICA | august 5, 2023
Biden Must Confront China’s Xi on Looming Climate Disaster
As Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping prepare to meet in San Francisco today, extreme weather events caused by rising temperatures are increasingly wreaking havoc at home and around the world, with new studies indicating that…
Sizing up Manchin’s legacy on energy, climate policy
Joe Manchin’s announcement Thursday that he plans to retire from the Senate caps off an extraordinary tenure marked by substantive policy wins but also high-profile clashes with fellow Democrats on energy and climate…
China announces plan for curbing methane emissions
China yesterday released an action plan for reducing methane emissions, pledging more “forceful” measures to tackle the potent greenhouse gas before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai later this month…
China releases plan to tackle methane emissions
China said Tuesday it would bolster efforts to crack down on emissions of methane, the greenhouse gas that is one of the top two drivers of rising global temperatures. If successful, China’s efforts to curb methane could have one…
Republicans’ climate stance sets up new 2024 election frontline
Republican lawmakers’ election of Mike Johnson as speaker of the US House of Representatives this month marks another shift by the party away from Democrats on the issue of climate change, political analysts say…
China Is Winning in Solar Power, but Its Coal Use Is Raising Alarms
China is installing about as many solar panels and wind turbines as the rest of the world combined, and is on track to meet its target for clean energy six years early. It is using renewables to meet nearly all of the growth in its electricity needs….
How Major League Baseball undermined the regular season and the winningest teams, including the Orioles
The trait that separates major league baseball from every other game on earth is the sheer length of its regular season. At 162 games, the baseball season is twice as long as basketball and hockey, and 10 times that of pro football…
Podcast: Labour’s Climate Policies, US Dems and the Coming Elections
Former environmental aide to US President Bill Clinton, Paul Bledsoe, the Telegraph’s environmental editor Emma Gatten, and the economist and former treasury advisor to Rishi Sunak, Tim Leunig, join Sam and Ayesha to discuss the economics and…
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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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