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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…
PAUL BLEDSOE on the war with iran
cbs wusa9 | april 6, 2026
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…
U.S. Gas and Renewables Help Buffer Power Consumers From War Costs
As President Donald Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu continue to prosecute a war against Iran, the energy narrative in many business outlets is that top U.S. gas exporters, already shipping near capacity, are unable…
Baseball needs reform to keep teams like Orioles competitive
Baseball is the only major American sport without a salary cap, a structural flaw that is allowing a few high-spending, big market teams to increasingly dominate the game while smaller market franchises become…
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…
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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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