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Biden Needs To Remind Voters He’s Always Been Pro-Business
Anew AP poll found that only 31% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, a result both shocking and familiar. Shocking because no modern president has received such poor marks during a period of…
Climate group with GOP roots a go-to for tariff push
Four senators — two Democratic, two Republican — plan to unveil proposals in coming weeks that would slap a tariff on carbon-intensive goods coming into the United States from abroad. Each bill will look very different in the approaches…
Podesta’s permitting reveal
White House clean energy adviser John Podesta is set to unveil the Biden administration’s priorities for reforming the nation’s permitting rules this morning in a heavily promoted…
PAUL BLEDSOE On climate change and methane emissions
CGTN AMERICA | November 4, 2022
Biden Needs To Remind Voters He’s Always Been Pro-Business
Anew AP poll found that only 31% of Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, a result both shocking and familiar. Shocking because no modern president has received such poor marks during a period of…
Climate group with GOP roots a go-to for tariff push
Four senators — two Democratic, two Republican — plan to unveil proposals in coming weeks that would slap a tariff on carbon-intensive goods coming into the United States from abroad. Each bill will look very different in the approaches…
Podesta’s permitting reveal
White House clean energy adviser John Podesta is set to unveil the Biden administration’s priorities for reforming the nation’s permitting rules this morning in a heavily promoted…
Washington DC’s 500 Most Influential People of 2023
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Bledsoe wrote reports warning that the EU’s dependency on Russian gas represented huge geopolitical and climate risks, in part due to high methane-leakage rates from Russia’s gas system…
Granholm’s Mountain Valley pipeline support creates firestorm
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s endorsement of the controversial Mountain Valley pipeline on Monday is putting environmentalists on high alert and stirring speculation about how the move will affect the project and congressional permitting negotiations…
Many Young Voters Bitter Over Biden’s Support of Willow Oil Drilling
In the past three weeks, President Biden’s administration has proposed regulations to speed the transition to electric vehicles, committed $1 billion to help poor countries fight climate change and prepared what could be the first limits on…
President Biden’s Earth Day promise: The incumbent has a real plan for a greener future, unlike Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis
Last week, a meeting of Florida flooding policy managers was washed out in South Florida by a deluge of 26 inches of rain in just eight hours, unprecedented rainfall made far larger due to the climate change crisis that…
Permitting reform can cut consumer energy costs and emissions
America could have cleaner, cheaper energy if only we could agree to get out of our own way. The obstacle we have created is a thicket of federal and state regulations requiring energy projects to undergo lengthy, expensive, one-by-one…
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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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