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How Biden’s climate law is charging US green spending and provoking Europe
Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act has delivered a big green bonus for climate experts and US business while infuriating America’s trading partners. The bill, passed last summer by the US Congress, earmarked…
PPI CALLS FOR MORE LNG
The Progressive Policy Institute is out with a report this morning that urges the U.S. to double LNG exports by 2030 to help push out coal and reduce European dependence on Russian gas. That should…
US Natural Gas Pitched as Climate Savior If Methane Leaks Cut
US natural gas exports can help the world slow the pace of climate change — but only if the fossil fuel displaces coal power and its methane emissions are slashed dramatically — the Progressive Policy Institute argued Thursday…
PAUL BLEDSOE On climate change and methane emissions
CGTN AMERICA | November 4, 2022
How Biden’s climate law is charging US green spending and provoking Europe
Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar Inflation Reduction Act has delivered a big green bonus for climate experts and US business while infuriating America’s trading partners. The bill, passed last summer by the US Congress, earmarked…
PPI CALLS FOR MORE LNG
The Progressive Policy Institute is out with a report this morning that urges the U.S. to double LNG exports by 2030 to help push out coal and reduce European dependence on Russian gas. That should…
US Natural Gas Pitched as Climate Savior If Methane Leaks Cut
US natural gas exports can help the world slow the pace of climate change — but only if the fossil fuel displaces coal power and its methane emissions are slashed dramatically — the Progressive Policy Institute argued Thursday…
US NEEDS TO DOUBLE LNG EXPORTS FOR CLIMATE’S SAKE: REPORT
The United States needs to increase gas production and double its exports to enable countries in Europe and Asia to displace combustion of coal, a new report from the Progressive Policy Institute argues…
3 climate takeaways from the GOP speaker meltdown
The Republican brawl over whom to elect House speaker hasn’t changed anything about climate policy — yet. But the chaos this week has underscored concerns that the new Congress is ill-equipped to address…
Cutting Chinese emissions requires US and EU to work together
Thank goodness that Adam Tooze has questioned the recent EU and UK furore over America’s Inflation Reduction Act, a law that could be a turning point in global climate protection, but is hardly a protectionist disaster for western trade…
How to Hand Out Billions in Climate Subsidies? Very Carefully.
ohn Podesta, President Biden’s clean energy adviser, said the administration was working to ensure that a record $370 billion in new federal subsidies for electric vehicles, wind farms, batteries and other clean energy technologies is spent…
New E.U. carbon tariff draws interest on Capitol Hill
The European Union’s climate import tax could galvanize a congressional conversation about enacting a similar policy in the United States. The E.U. parliament struck a deal Tuesday on its long-awaited carbon border adjustment mechanism…
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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 Strategic Advisor at the Progressive Policy Institute, a top center-left think tank in Washington, and a Professional Lecturer at American University’s Center for Environmental Policy. He is also President of Bledsoe & Associates, LLC, a strategic public policy firm specializing in tax policy, energy, natural resources and climate change.
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