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Cleaner US gas can reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian energy
As President Biden meets with European Union leaders in Brussels and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, the EU and U.S. determination to reduce greenhouse gas emissions remains high on the agenda…
The energy and environment tensions in US-EU summit
The official White House statement recapping the U.S.-EU summit just released before press time does not mention the most contentious energy issues facing the two allies, including the prospect of import tariffs…
The US hydrogen moonshot
US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm described her department as the US government’s “in-house solutions powerhouse”. It would be the DoE, she said, that would lead the charge to reaching a net-zero US economy by 2050, by…
G7 leaders face make-or-break moment in climate crisis
Global leaders arriving in Cornwall for the G7 summit have already found themselves in a changed world: masks and social distancing have replaced the usual hugs, handshakes and cheek-pecking, the entourages have slimmed down…
With Trump Gone, Old Fault Lines in the Climate Movement Reopen, Complicating Biden’s Path Forward
As President Joe Biden works to enact his plan for cutting greenhouse gases, a long dormant rift among climate action activists is surfacing. On one side are those who believe that renewable energy—especially solar, wind, and hydroelectricity—will be sufficient to fuel the economy…
What Biden’s $6T budget plan means for energy
President Biden’s first full budget request positions his Department of Energy and related agencies at the heart of his aggressive effort to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050…
Crunch time for Biden to turn climate priorities into law
President Joe Biden will introduce a $6 trillion budget today reiterating his interest in passing large new investments in clean energy and fighting climate change…
The Arctic is ground zero in the climate battle
Tony Barber’s important column on the growing rivalry of great powers over the Arctic rightly notes that Arctic climate change “is an urgent matter for everyone”. Since the Arctic is warming at twice as fast as the global average…
Attacks from far-right and far-left only prove Biden’s energy plan occupies sensible center
Republican critics are using the excuse of a cyberattack from Russian hackers on a key gasoline pipeline to show that somehow President Biden must move to the far right on energy and climate policy.
3 takeaways from the Colonial pipeline hack
For years, cybersecurity experts, intelligence officials and lawmakers have warned about the high-stakes threat of a ransomware attack on U.S. critical infrastructure…
Climate crisis is not a ‘partisan issue’, young Republican tells his own party
Lies that hamburgers will be banned, conspiracy-laden claims of government tyranny, blame for environmental degradation foisted upon immigrants – the Republican response to Joe Biden’s climate agenda suggests the base instincts of Donald Trump still strongly animate the party…
China’s emissions now eclipse the developed world — preventing climate protection
At the recent White House climate change summit President Biden made the extraordinarily ambitious pledge of reducing U.S. emissions by 50 percent over 2005 levels by 2030…
Cyber attack shuts major US pipeline system
Assault on Colonial Pipeline underscores vulnerabilities in critical US infrastructure. A major US fuel pipeline has been shut down after a ransomware attack, in an incident that underscores the vulnerabilities in America’s critical infrastructure…
Biden vows US will work with Russia on climate
The US will work with Russia on ways to combat the climate crisis, President Joe Biden has announced, saying he looked forward to joint efforts and was “very heartened” by the country’s call for collaboration on new technologies such as carbon removal…
After half a century in public life, Kerry gets one more shot
John F. Kerry was on a Boeing 757 government jet in November 2016, en route to Antarctica to observe scientists studying the impact of climate change, when he learned that Donald Trump would be the next president…
China won’t be following the Biden timeline for climate pledges
The U.S. and China have set a tone for cooperating on climate change this decade, but Beijing is still holding off on delivering concrete near-term pledges ahead of President Joe Biden’s big summit event later this week…
Joe Biden to reveal US emissions pledge in key climate crisis moment
Joe Biden faces a key test of his commitment to climate action this week, when he sets out his core plans for tackling the climate crisis and calls on all of the world’s major economies to join him in bold action to slash greenhouse gas emissions in the next ten years…
Slashing emissions by 2050 isn’t enough. We can bring down temperatures now.
Even as President Biden prepares to host a White House global climate summit on Earth Day, April 22, new science shows that the climate crisis is accelerating and demanding greater emergency measures…
Biden must compel China and Russia to act on climate
In recent weeks, a mini-Cold War has threatened to break out, with the American officials of all types becoming increasingly critical of authoritarian actions by both China and Russia…
Biden wants to buy EVs. Are there enough cars?
The Biden administration’s plan to replace the federal government’s fleet of cars and trucks with electric vehicles assembled in the United States could face a roadblock: supply. There are currently 645,047 federal vehicles across the country and fewer than 1% of them are electric, according to the General Services Administration..
SOTU: What Biden said — and didn’t say — on climate
President Biden used his first State of the Union address to reset his administration after a year of inflation and crises at home and abroad that has left him with nearly record-low approval ratings…
Biden to call for global unity on Ukraine in first State of the Union speech
President Joe Biden will call on America and the world to remain united in confronting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, during his first State of the Union speech that will be heavily devoted…
Biden wanted to use the State of the Union speech to pivot to his agenda. Then Russia started a land war.
President Biden’s team has revised his first State of the Union to portray Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine as a major crisis facing the West, according to a person familiar with the text, shifting the tenor of the speech…
Oil and gas facilities could profit from plugging methane leaks, IEA says
Plugging methane from leaky oil and gas facilities would be free of cost almost everywhere in the world, and in many cases would produce a significant profit, at today’s soaring gas prices…
Democrats hit the road to promote green projects
President Biden recalled yesterday that Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur handed him a note just after his first joint address to Congress last year, touting the virtues of the Great Lakes that are an economic driver in her district…
UK urged not to abandon climate goals amid net zero row
Senior figures in climate diplomacy, including the key architect of the Paris climate agreement, have urged the UK government to maintain its commitments to climate action, amid escalating…
E.U.-U.S. meeting today has big implications for climate, energy
Top officials on the E.U.-U.S. Energy Council are set to meet today in Washington, as the United States warns that Russia could invade Ukraine within days…
Will climate action this year matter in the midterms?
Congressional Democrats think they’ve found a way to head off the trouncing they’re expected to receive in the midterm elections: Pass their aggressive climate change agenda…
Not what the Biden administration wanted to hear from Xi
China’s Xi Jinping told fellow Communist Party leaders the country’s strategy on climate change will “ensure the normal life of the masses,” raising additional questions as to how aggressive…
Why the Russia crisis matters for U.S. energy
The Biden administration said yesterday that it’s working to find alternative supplies of energy for western Europe should Russia cut off the region’s flow of natural gas and oil over growing tensions surrounding Ukraine…
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