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Democrats eye curbs on fossil fuel exports as price fix
Congressional Democrats look increasingly interested in supporting a curb on U.S. oil, coal, and natural gas exports as a means of lowering energy prices at home…
Mung beans, bunnies and the Muppets: PM’s green rhetoric ‘insulting and divisive’
Boris Johnson took the stage at Glasgow as the Cop26 summit neared its conclusion last Wednesday, aiming to galvanise the conference into a deal that would stave off climate breakdown….
How Kerry’s announced US-China climate agreement falls short
The new agreement between the U.S. and China to collaborate on curbing climate change by enhancing action reducing emissions this decade lacks concrete pledges, emissions targets, or timeframes…
How to Limit Temperature Increases in the Very Near Term
If the years of devastating droughts, floods, heat waves and wildfires since the Paris climate agreement was adopted have taught us anything, it’s that we have underestimated the pace of extreme, destabilizing climate change…
Unlocking the Transition: Biden, Congress aim to fill gap from clean electricity plan’s demise
The collapse of a controversial plan to prod utilities to rapidly decarbonize has scrambled the Biden administration’s blueprint for slashing power sector emissions…
Biden apologizes for Trump-era absence on climate, pitching a robust agenda that’s on shaky ground at home
Speaking at a high-profile climate summit that attracted more than 100 world leaders, President Biden apologized Monday for the Trump administration’s inaction on climate, lending a personal note to his administration’s efforts to…
COP26: American climate credibility in question at UN summit with Biden’s agenda in flux
President Joe Biden will try to pressure other countries to take action to slow global warming at COP26, even as…
Key Moments From Day 1 of the COP26 Climate Change Summit
Meeting in Glasgow, President Biden and a host of other world leaders sounded dire warnings, but hopes for breakthrough action are muted…
How Congress can save Biden’s climate agenda
There is a scramble under way on Capitol Hill to keep the Biden administration’s emissions goals on track after West Virginia senator Joe Manchin torpedoed the climate centrepiece of the president’s multitrillion dollar spending package…
Biden under pressure not to show up to Glasgow climate talks empty-handed
The big U.N. climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, starting Sunday is pressuring Democrats to come up with at least a framework of a deal on their climate and social spending package, as…
Methane leak near COP26 venue underscores emissions challenge
powerful greenhouse gas responsible for 40 per cent of the world’s warming over the past decade is spewing into the atmosphere from a site in Glasgow not far from where the COP26 climate summit is set to begin. Methane from a gas pipeline near…
Biden abruptly accelerates his involvement in agenda talks
For weeks, President Biden has met repeatedly with Democratic lawmakers as part of the tortuous negotiations over his agenda — but to the frustration of many, he has revealed few opinions of his own on what should remain in the plan and what should be jettisoned…
America needs a climate plan compromise
President Biden’s Build Back Better agenda is making its way through Congress via a budget reconciliation bill — a once-in-a-generation opportunity for America to reassert its leadership in combating the climate crisis…
Democrats’ landmark climate proposal teeters
The Democrats’ central climate plan in the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package is hanging by a thread as lawmakers return from a weeklong recess that failed to cool tense deliberations on major aspects of President Biden’s agenda…
Energy crisis tests Biden’s clean electricity agenda
The Biden administration called yesterday for continued use of natural gas, illustrating the challenging political spot facing the White House as it navigates between a global energy crisis, protesters on the left and a push for a major clean energy package on Capitol Hill…
Transparency on emissions will be key to gas industry’s future, experts say
U.S. controls on planet-warming emissions, investor pressure on climate risks, and strict climate policies in end-user markets could force U.S. oil and gas companies to find new ways to market themselves in the energy transition…
One policy accounts for a lot of the decarbonization in Joe Biden’s climate plans
Take a road trip to Indianapolis, home to a certain two-and-a-half-mile race track, and you will find yourself in good company. A survey carried out before the pandemic found that about 85% of local commuters drive to work, alone…
European energy problems give Russia an advantage
Just a mere tease from Russian President Vladimir Putin this week that the Kremlin is thinking about “a possible increase” of natural gas supply to the desperate European market…
Moderates love Dems’ climate agenda. What changed from 2009?
Moderate Democrats are standing with their colleagues as they call for aggressive climate change policies, a marked contrast from over a decade ago when a deeply divided party failed to deliver on a cap-and-trade proposal….
One man, one planet: how the COP climate talks will put the fate of the Earth in Boris Johnson’s hands
The prime minister who wanted to be “world king” really will enjoy awesome global influence at Glasgow. But there have been alarming signs that he’s not concentrating…
Cop27: EU agrees to loss and damage fund to help poor countries amid climate disasters
A breakthrough looked possible in the deadlocked global climate talks on Friday as the European Union made a dramatic intervention to agree to key developing world demands on financial help for poor countries…
What a Republican House means for energy
Ahead of the midterm elections, many Republicans hoped a red wave would put pressure on the Biden administration’s energy agenda and help reverse it. But any plan to slow down clean energy spending looks more…
Who wins Trump v. DeSantis? Joe Biden
Joe Biden often says, “don’t compare me to God Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” Surprisingly, midterm voters did just that. By small but crucial margins, voters consistently preferred Biden-supported Democrats over dodgy…
Biden’s Message on Climate Might Not Be the One the World Wants
When President Biden walks into the United Nations climate summit here on Friday, he could fairly boast of returning the United States to the global fight to keep the planet from dangerously overheating, and of turbocharging America’s…
COP27: A global methane agreement can prevent climate catastrophe
All the parties participating in the climate negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt this week and next would do well to remember that today’s climate emergency is about two basic concepts: time and temperature. It’s too…
Is it ‘I.R.A.’ or ‘Ira’? Advocates are split.
Policy nerds love a good acronym. But climate advocates haven’t settled on how to refer to the massive climate and health care law that Democrats have dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act. President Joe Biden prefers to say all seven syllables of…
Call China’s climate bluff
While American climate advocates are still taking victory laps over the historic clean energy bill passed by Congress in August, the international climate challenge remains dire as diplomats gather in Egypt next week at the…
Global anger at Sunak’s Cop27 snub that raises fears over UK’s climate crisis stance
Rishi Sunak’s decision to snub the Cop27 UN climate talks, and to keep King Charles from attending, has angered and upset countries around the world, risking the UK’s standing on the world stage and raising concerns…
Delayed methane rule rams into rising gasoline prices
The Biden administration has delayed releasing its proposed rule to reduce methane at oil and gas wells for weeks now. It comes as the president faces criticism for stepping up climate regulations on American energy companies even as he…
US can improve energy security and climate together
Election seasons always feature exaggerated divisions, with candidates drawing bright lines between themselves and opponents. But lasting problems come when discourse devolves into false choices between important shared goals…
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