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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…
Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
For two years, global temperatures have exceeded the 1.5C heating limit laid out in the Paris climate agreement. This overshooting will have “devastating consequences”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, has warned.
We can still avoid irreversible climate catastrophe, but we must act now
Problems securing affordable accommodations in the remote host town of Belem, on the Amazon River in Brazil, have threatened vital COP 30 climate negotiations before they even begin. But lessons from…
How Orioles’ new manager can deliver playoff wins | GUEST COMMENTARY
With the Toronto Blue Jays losing a heartbreak Game 7 to the Dodgers, every AL East team has reached the World Series in the last decade — everyone, that is, except the Orioles. In fact, it’s been nearly two
Letter: Will this be the president’s most destructive legacy?
Two articles in the October 20 print edition illustrate how Donald Trump’s political culture war, aimed at undermining all possible US and global climate protections, may end up being his most devastatingly destructive long-term legacy…
China’s plans to cut emissions too weak to stave off global catastrophe, say experts
China announced its plans for future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on Wednesday, producing a scathing response from experts who said they were much too weak to stave off global catastrophe…
Unmasking Climate Action at UN
As global climate leaders, including dozens of heads of state, gather at the UN in New York this week, it is time to admit that current climate approaches are failing. Already expensive and deadly climate impacts are increasingly…
Trump’s War on Renewables Risks Power Price Backlash
Rising US electricity costs are grabbing headlines, with demand from artificial intelligence data centers expected to increase to record highs this year and next. The Trump administration has until now focused…
Dems go all-in on energy price messaging. Will it work?
After seeing Republicans gut their signature climate law, Democrats have embraced a strategy they think will make the GOP pay in next year’s midterm elections. During the August recess, Democratic lawmakers have.
America is moving backward on climate policy — here’s how Democrats can right the ship
Every week brings a new headline about the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress repealing climate protections. The latest is a shocking proposal to overturn the landmark scientific…
‘Keeping us hooked on fossil fuels’: how can we negotiate with autocracies on the climate crisis?
When it comes to the climate crisis, how do you negotiate with an autocracy? It is the case today, and it is almost certain to remain so for the dwindling number of years in which we can hope to stave off the worst of climate breakdown, that…
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…
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