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End offshore wind energy development
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump promised to end offshore wind energy development. On his second term’s first day, Trump signed an executive order that set back federal efforts embracing wind energy…
California Wildfires Offer a Taste of the Problems Trump Faces
The wildfires rampaging through Southern California this week are only a hint of the climate-change-caused devastation that is likely to grow far worse during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. These changes…
Methane Cuts Are Key for Natural Gas, Even Under Donald Trump
The politics of natural gas are again heating up as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term, while domestic and international demand for U.S. gas keeps growing and…
PAUL BLEDSOE on what is needed to address the climate crisis
channel news asia | november 25, 2024
End offshore wind energy development
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump promised to end offshore wind energy development. On his second term’s first day, Trump signed an executive order that set back federal efforts embracing wind energy…
California Wildfires Offer a Taste of the Problems Trump Faces
The wildfires rampaging through Southern California this week are only a hint of the climate-change-caused devastation that is likely to grow far worse during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. These changes…
Methane Cuts Are Key for Natural Gas, Even Under Donald Trump
The politics of natural gas are again heating up as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term, while domestic and international demand for U.S. gas keeps growing and…
Trump has a fighting chance to prevent Arctic meltdown. He should take it.
The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day before the end of the decade, according to a new study by Céline Heuzé and Alexandra Jahn recently published in Nature. When that happens, a vast stretch of newly…
Biden declares tougher 2035 emissions targets weeks before Trump return
Joe Biden has announced tougher targets on the US’s carbon dioxide emissions for the next decade, in a defiant final gesture intended as a “capstone” on his legacy on the climate…
Could rising natural gas prices derail Trump’s energy agenda?
President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to cut energy costs for average Americans is already hitting a major hurdle — not from the renewables he blasted on the campaign trail but from the…
Re: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
Mr. Krugman’s uniquely valuable contributions to American economics and politics over the last quarter century at their core exemplified a mantra of former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan…
How significant is the US$300 billion COP29 climate deal for developing countries?
Over the past weekend, nearly 200 countries concluded the annual United Nations-led climate summit with a financing goal of at least US$300 billion for developing nations per year by 2035…
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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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