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Winning the politics of the climate crisis
Democratic presidential candidates will try to outdo one another when they participate in CNN’s “Climate Forum” Wednesday. They will propose evermore ambitious plans to fight climate change. Given the increasingly dire…
Even a Democratic Landslide in 2020 Won’t Guarantee Major Climate Action
Democratic presidential candidates are jousting over who best can save the planet. But even if one of them wins the White House, the Senate would threaten to scuttle any action to ease the effects of climate change. If Democrats…
The Energy 202: Bernie Sanders announces a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal
Bernie Sanders released a comprehensive plan to address a “climate crisis” on par with the threat America faced during the Second World War, vowing to declare the global buildup of planet-warming gases a national emergency…
Daily on Energy: Trump’s visit to petrochemical plant shows a Democratic ‘blind spot’ on fossil fuels
President Trump is touring a petrochemical plant in western Pennsylvania Tuesday afternoon to tout booming U.S. energy production and its ties to the economy of a swing state whose Democratic leadership is more embracing…
Winning the politics of the climate crisis
Democratic presidential candidates will try to outdo one another when they participate in CNN’s “Climate Forum” Wednesday. They will propose evermore ambitious plans to fight climate change. Given the increasingly dire…
Even a Democratic Landslide in 2020 Won’t Guarantee Major Climate Action
Democratic presidential candidates are jousting over who best can save the planet. But even if one of them wins the White House, the Senate would threaten to scuttle any action to ease the effects of climate change. If Democrats…
The Energy 202: Bernie Sanders announces a $16.3 trillion Green New Deal
Bernie Sanders released a comprehensive plan to address a “climate crisis” on par with the threat America faced during the Second World War, vowing to declare the global buildup of planet-warming gases a national emergency…
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Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House, US Senate, and Interior Department official, is a leading expert on politics and policy whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Politico and other leading outlets. Paul is strategic advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute, an influential center-left think tank in Washington, and a professional lecturer at American University’s School of Public Affairs.
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