Recent Articles & Interviews
UK’s Andy Burnham is Showing Democrats How to Defeat Trumpism
As America gets ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence from Britain, U.S. Democrats can ironically learn a lot from UK politics these days. New British political star Andy Burnham recently defeated a…
Elected Democrats Have Embraced ‘Climate Hushing.’ Are They Making a Mistake as the Midterms Loom?
To some political pundits and Democratic strategists, one takeaway from the 2024 presidential election was clear: Don’t talk about climate change. An Inside Climate News analysis of press releases issued by members of…
Low-Cost Energy Policies Can Fuel Democrats Defeat of MAGA
Donald Trump’s heedless war in Iran and his political crusade against clean energy have inflicted a devastating new affordability crisis on American consumers, directly causing the highest inflation levels in over three years and undermining…
PAUL BLEDSOE on the war with iran
cbs wusa9 | april 6, 2026
UK’s Andy Burnham is Showing Democrats How to Defeat Trumpism
As America gets ready to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence from Britain, U.S. Democrats can ironically learn a lot from UK politics these days. New British political star Andy Burnham recently defeated a…
Elected Democrats Have Embraced ‘Climate Hushing.’ Are They Making a Mistake as the Midterms Loom?
To some political pundits and Democratic strategists, one takeaway from the 2024 presidential election was clear: Don’t talk about climate change. An Inside Climate News analysis of press releases issued by members of…
Low-Cost Energy Policies Can Fuel Democrats Defeat of MAGA
Donald Trump’s heedless war in Iran and his political crusade against clean energy have inflicted a devastating new affordability crisis on American consumers, directly causing the highest inflation levels in over three years and undermining…
Emergency brakes: How to limit temperatures long before the last resort of geoengineering
As global temperatures climb relentlessly past 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, risking immensely destructive climate tipping points, many have come to see solar geoengineering as a necessary fail-safe…
King’s environmental views will never face a more obdurate listener than Trump
Of the many clashes in worldview between King Charles III and Donald Trump, the greatest is on an issue the White House has sought to silence: the future of the planet…
Democrats urged to link clean energy to affordability as Iran war hikes up prices
Democrats should get louder in championing clean energy’s affordability and resilience from global shocks, according to some of the party’s leading voices on the climate…
As Iran war exposes global dependence on fossil fuels, the biggest emitters are reaping the rewards
Oil stands at about $110 a barrel and some forecasts have predicted it could reach $150. Food prices are on the rise and are expected to leap further owing to the fertiliser supply crunch, leading the World Food Programme USA to…
Electricity, Not Oil, Is the Real America-First Energy Strategy
Since President Donald Trump began attacking Iran, global oil prices and U.S. gasoline costs have risen dramatically, with negative repercussions on already hard-pressed consumers and a shaky American economy. Oil prices have…
Featured In...
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.
SEARCH
TOPICS