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Trump has a fighting chance to prevent Arctic meltdown. He should take it.
The Arctic Ocean could see its first ice-free day before the end of the decade, according to a new study by Céline Heuzé and Alexandra Jahn recently published in Nature. When that happens, a vast stretch of newly…
Biden declares tougher 2035 emissions targets weeks before Trump return
Joe Biden has announced tougher targets on the US’s carbon dioxide emissions for the next decade, in a defiant final gesture intended as a “capstone” on his legacy on the climate…
Could rising natural gas prices derail Trump’s energy agenda?
President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to cut energy costs for average Americans is already hitting a major hurdle — not from the renewables he blasted on the campaign trail but from the…
Re: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment
Mr. Krugman’s uniquely valuable contributions to American economics and politics over the last quarter century at their core exemplified a mantra of former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan…
How significant is the US$300 billion COP29 climate deal for developing countries?
Over the past weekend, nearly 200 countries concluded the annual United Nations-led climate summit with a financing goal of at least US$300 billion for developing nations per year by 2035…
How oil and gas companies disguise their methane emissions
On the shores of the Caspian Sea, less than 30 miles from the place where world leaders, ministers and negotiators are meeting at the COP29 climate summit in Baku this week, a powerful greenhouse gas has been venting into…
US oil industry eagerly awaits Donald Trump’s deregulatory push
US oil industry eagerly awaits Donald Trump’s deregulatory push Despite president-elect’s promises, production is unlikely to surge as Wall Street demands returns over growth. The oil and gas industry had…
Musk Believes in Global Warming. Trump Doesn’t. Will That Change?
Elon Musk has described himself as “pro-environment” and “super pro climate.” But he also threw himself wholeheartedly into electing as president someone who has dismissed global warming as a hoax…
Chinese Methane Emissions Are Risking Climate Disaster
As climate diplomats from 200 countries gather for the annual United Nations climate negotiations beginning Monday, fast-rising global temperatures over the last year have reached…
Biden’s last major climate rule nears finish line
The last major climate regulation of the Biden administration could be finalized next week. EPA is due to release its final rule for the climate law’s methane fee, which has undergone White House review for…
Trump donor fined for pollution leads a fight to end methane emission penalties
A powerful US oil and gas industry lobby group has drawn up detailed plans to kill off penalties for emitting methane, a potent planet-heating gas that’s increasing at the fastest rate in decades, with this effort led by a major donor…
Trump is the elephant in the room on climate targets
The US election result next week will influence the world’s global climate change action plans, including Australia. At The Australian Financial Review Energy and Climate Summit last week, an audience member asked…
Kamala Harris Pushed by Greens to Step Up Biden’s Climate Fight
Kamala Harris hasn’t laid out a detailed vision for addressing climate change and energy if she’s elected president — but she’s already getting plenty of advice. Environmentalists and former advisers have outlined their…
Trump hasn’t helped working-class men — but Harris and Walz can
Former President Donald Trump makes many extravagant promises and claims on the campaign trail. But especially for his political base of working-class men, he delivered very little economically when in office…
How the ‘climate voter’ might matter in a down-to-the-wire US election
Despite its enormous implications, the climate crisis has so far mostly been a dormant issue in the US presidential election. Some hope the devastation wrought in quick succession by two major hurricanes will shake up the…
A Shift Among Democrats: Embrace Record Levels of Oil and Gas
JD Vance and Tim Walz on Tuesday both avoided talking about the main cause of global warming that is powering the kind of violent weather that struck the Southeast this week: the burning of fossil fuels…
Economists agree another Trump term would ruin the US economy — will voters listen?
In recent weeks, the U.S. economy has gotten consistently good news. New data shows prices barely rose in August — just .1 percent — with the annual inflation rate now down to 2.2 percent. This allowed the Federal Reserve to lower…
As Hurricane Helene Hits Florida, Trump’s Climate Policy Ducks for Cover
A massive storm, Hurricane Helene, made larger and more destructive due to super-heated ocean temperatures caused by climate change, is due to slam into Florida Thursday. The enormity of this storm (and others like it) is partly the inevitable result…
3 questions answered about Biden’s LNG pause
With less than two months until Election Day, the Biden administration’s pause on liquefied natural gas export approvals remains deeply polarizing. Backers hailed January’s LNG permit freeze from the Department of Energy as a step…
Harris and Trump debate the future of energy
Trump and Harris are expected to lean into their sharply opposing views of climate change and energy policy when they square off at their first ever meeting tonight. While Trump has leaned…
The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports
“We can now assess the future of natural gas exports based on the facts.” So declared Jennifer Granholm, America’s outgoing energy secretary, in a statement published on December 17th. It accompanied…
Republicans in Congress Could Kill 400,000 Energy Jobs
New EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin made headlines last week bragging that he could rescind billions in loans for clean energy. But as with many Trumpian threats, it turns out to be hugely overstated, if not just a flat-out lie. All the money in…
AI is the future of tech, but its effects on the climate could change everything
Over the last few years, the tech industry and their energy-hungry data centers have been responsible for large increases in climate emissions, with Microsoft’s emissions growing 30 percent since 2020 and…
‘Backsliding’: most countries to miss vital climate deadline as Cop30 nears
The vast majority of governments are likely to miss a looming deadline to file vital plans that will determine whether or not the world has a chance of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown…
Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump
Donald Trump’s attempts to slash incentives for electric cars would cause sales of the vehicles to plummet, with this effort cheered on by a seemingly confounding supporter – Elon Musk, the billionaire…
How Trump is targeting wind and solar energy – and delighting big oil
For several years, Republicans accused Joe Biden of waging a “war on energy” even as the United States drilled more oil and gas than at any time in its history. Now, a more tangible assault is gathering pace under…
End offshore wind energy development
During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump promised to end offshore wind energy development. On his second term’s first day, Trump signed an executive order that set back federal efforts embracing wind energy…
Trump signs order to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time
Donald Trump on Monday moved to withdraw the US, the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution, from the Paris climate agreement for a second time, and put the United Nations on notice…
California Wildfires Offer a Taste of the Problems Trump Faces
The wildfires rampaging through Southern California this week are only a hint of the climate-change-caused devastation that is likely to grow far worse during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. These changes…
Methane Cuts Are Key for Natural Gas, Even Under Donald Trump
The politics of natural gas are again heating up as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for his second term, while domestic and international demand for U.S. gas keeps growing and…
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