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Electric cars are the future. Here’s how to get American drivers interested in them.
EVs are key to manufacturing jobs and reducing climate change emissions. The on-ramp to these benefits is exciting drivers the way the Model T did…

Extreme weather pummels United States
[VIDEO] Dangerously low temperatures continue to grip Texas, as many residents struggle to cope without electricity, water or gas…

U.S. rejoins Paris climate agreement. Now comes the daunting part.
For four years, the rest of the world watched with frustration and a sense of irony as the U.S. walked away from the Paris Agreement, the global climate pact it had painstakingly pressured other countries to join and then abruptly abandoned during the Trump administration…

Kerry bets on setting aside confrontation with China to combat climate change
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry faces a daunting task as he seeks to prove the Biden administration can set aside the biggest confrontations with China to cooperate on combating climate change…

US Democrats fear ill wind from Biden’s climate policies in oil states
US President Joe Biden’s moratorium on drilling on federal lands has prompted lawmakers within his own party to warn that the policy threatens jobs and local budgets in states dependent on fossil fuels…

In Biden’s Washington, Democrats and Republicans Are Not United on ‘Unity’
The new president seeks bipartisanship, but he is caught between Republicans who want tangible concessions and Democrats who are in no mood to compromise…

The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists
[Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] Climate scientists are dealing with a strange new feeling now that Joe Biden is president: optimism.

GM’s bet on carbon neutrality rides green wave in Washington
General Motors Co.’s plan to become carbon-neutral by 2040 and drop gas and diesel engines in all new light-duty vehicles by 2035 reflects a newly Democratic-controlled capital pivoting to an aggressive climate agenda.

Electric cars are the future. Here’s how to get American drivers interested in them.
EVs are key to manufacturing jobs and reducing climate change emissions. The on-ramp to these benefits is exciting drivers the way the Model T did…

Extreme weather pummels United States
[VIDEO] Dangerously low temperatures continue to grip Texas, as many residents struggle to cope without electricity, water or gas…

U.S. rejoins Paris climate agreement. Now comes the daunting part.
For four years, the rest of the world watched with frustration and a sense of irony as the U.S. walked away from the Paris Agreement, the global climate pact it had painstakingly pressured other countries to join and then abruptly abandoned during the Trump administration…

Kerry bets on setting aside confrontation with China to combat climate change
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry faces a daunting task as he seeks to prove the Biden administration can set aside the biggest confrontations with China to cooperate on combating climate change…

US Democrats fear ill wind from Biden’s climate policies in oil states
US President Joe Biden’s moratorium on drilling on federal lands has prompted lawmakers within his own party to warn that the policy threatens jobs and local budgets in states dependent on fossil fuels…

In Biden’s Washington, Democrats and Republicans Are Not United on ‘Unity’
The new president seeks bipartisanship, but he is caught between Republicans who want tangible concessions and Democrats who are in no mood to compromise…

The Energy 202: Biden stokes hope among climate scientists
[Washington Post subscription required to read this article.] Climate scientists are dealing with a strange new feeling now that Joe Biden is president: optimism.

GM’s bet on carbon neutrality rides green wave in Washington
General Motors Co.’s plan to become carbon-neutral by 2040 and drop gas and diesel engines in all new light-duty vehicles by 2035 reflects a newly Democratic-controlled capital pivoting to an aggressive climate agenda.
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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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