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As the planet nears climate tipping points, Trump chooses denial
Climate disasters already cost US consumers and businesses more than $100bn a year. Earlier this month, the same day President Donald Trump ordered the US government to repeal the scientific determination that greenhouse gas…
Trump’s Arctic imperialism risks global climate meltdown
President Trump’s obsession with “owning” Greenland has been described as a massive threat to global security that undermines NATO and the trust of our closest allies in Europe, who have responded by sending additional troops to Greenland…
Appalachian Gas Is Key to Lowering Emissions and Prices Amid Rising Power
As demand for U.S. electricity has increased in the last few years, the role of natural gas in providing reliable baseload power has become more important to consumers, businesses, and to balancing the electrical grids that are also using more intermittent renewable…
PAUL BLEDSOE on what is needed to address the climate crisis
channel news asia | november 25, 2024
As the planet nears climate tipping points, Trump chooses denial
Climate disasters already cost US consumers and businesses more than $100bn a year. Earlier this month, the same day President Donald Trump ordered the US government to repeal the scientific determination that greenhouse gas…
Trump’s Arctic imperialism risks global climate meltdown
President Trump’s obsession with “owning” Greenland has been described as a massive threat to global security that undermines NATO and the trust of our closest allies in Europe, who have responded by sending additional troops to Greenland…
Appalachian Gas Is Key to Lowering Emissions and Prices Amid Rising Power
As demand for U.S. electricity has increased in the last few years, the role of natural gas in providing reliable baseload power has become more important to consumers, businesses, and to balancing the electrical grids that are also using more intermittent renewable…
Consumers may have to pay for federal pause of Virginia’s offshore wind project
Right before it was supposed to come online, the Trump admin instituted a 90-day hold. Dominion Energy has filed a lawsuit, calling the halt “arbitrary and capricious.” Virginia residents have already paid billions in…
Electricity costs are rising rapidly — there is a solution, but Trump keeps blocking it
President Trump is waging a political culture war against U.S. clean energy that is jacking up monthly electricity bills on already struggling American families — in many cases costing more than $200 more a year…
Oil, minerals, and trumps Venezuela takeover
The Trump administration says it can’t wait to get Venezuela’s oil “flowing the way it should be” and boost the nation’s mining industry after the Trump team removed the country’s leader and announced a U.S. takeover…
Climate priority is to curb near-term temperatures
Kudos to Pilita Clark (“Overshoot will make climate politics even harder”, Opinion, December 19) for having the courage to say what most climate experts know but will not utter — which is that fast-rising global temperatures, already 1.5°C above…
Where Global Emissions Stand, 10 Years After Paris
Ten years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is easy to dwell on its failures. But the successes go less remarked…
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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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