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EU Methane Rules Can Benefit U.S. Industry and Cut Emissions
Last week, the irritatingly bureaucratic European Union Commission issued a surprisingly sensible new compromise regulation calling for methane limits on natural gas imports but allowing companies to comply…
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…
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…
Trump’s Arctic imperialism risks global climate meltdown
President Trump’s obsession with “owning” Greenland has been described as a massive threat to global security that undermines NATO and the trust of our closest allies in Europe, who have responded by sending additional troops to Greenland…
Appalachian Gas Is Key to Lowering Emissions and Prices Amid Rising Power
As demand for U.S. electricity has increased in the last few years, the role of natural gas in providing reliable baseload power has become more important to consumers, businesses, and to balancing the electrical grids that are also using more intermittent renewable…
Consumers may have to pay for federal pause of Virginia’s offshore wind project
Right before it was supposed to come online, the Trump admin instituted a 90-day hold. Dominion Energy has filed a lawsuit, calling the halt “arbitrary and capricious.” Virginia residents have already paid billions in…
Electricity costs are rising rapidly — there is a solution, but Trump keeps blocking it
President Trump is waging a political culture war against U.S. clean energy that is jacking up monthly electricity bills on already struggling American families — in many cases costing more than $200 more a year…
Oil, minerals, and trumps Venezuela takeover
The Trump administration says it can’t wait to get Venezuela’s oil “flowing the way it should be” and boost the nation’s mining industry after the Trump team removed the country’s leader and announced a U.S. takeover…
Climate priority is to curb near-term temperatures
Kudos to Pilita Clark (“Overshoot will make climate politics even harder”, Opinion, December 19) for having the courage to say what most climate experts know but will not utter — which is that fast-rising global temperatures, already 1.5°C above…
Where Global Emissions Stand, 10 Years After Paris
Ten years on from the historic Paris climate summit, which ended with the world’s first and only global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, it is easy to dwell on its failures. But the successes go less remarked…
The Orioles’ World Series’ chances just heated up
Finally — after decades of seeing the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and other big market teams sign all the top free agents — the Orioles have done it: They’ve spent huge cash for…
EU Methane Rules Can Benefit U.S. Industry and Cut Emissions
Last week, the irritatingly bureaucratic European Union Commission issued a surprisingly sensible new compromise regulation calling for methane limits on natural gas imports but allowing companies to comply…
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…
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…
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