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6 things to watch as panel votes on historic environment bill
The Energy and Commerce Committee will begin voting today on a historic suite of climate and energy programs, as the panel prepares its section of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. The markup will be closely watched by…
Congress must ensure electric vehicles are within reach for all American drivers
There is growing consensus in the auto industry, the Biden administration and among Democrats in Congress that electric vehicles are critical to both the future of American manufacturing and to cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions…
We need Biden’s economic plan to rebuild the middle class
For more than 40 years, a central narrative of American politics, successfully pushed by the Republican Party, has been that government is ineffectual at best, and counterproductive more often than not. Or, as President Ronald Reagan, a former…
Climate devastation is upon us. Congress must act.
Last week, on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida unleashed 150 mile-an-hour winds and slammed into New Orleans, super-fueled to huge size and rain-making power by the Gulf of Mexico whose temperatures are 3 to 5 degrees higher…
Federal fleet electrification faces delays
Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden set an ambitious goal to electrify the entire federal fleet. Now, his agencies are drafting a plan to phase out hundreds of thousands of internal-combustion engines…
Climate activists fear this is the last chance to pass meaningful legislation
Gina Peltier prayed over the Mississippi River earlier this month, hoping that President Biden would step in to stop the oil pipeline that she says will threaten Minnesota lakes, wild-rice waters and treaty-protected tribal land…
Line 3 is about to come online. What will Biden do?
The embattled Line 3 project could be operational next month, putting pressure on the Biden administration to weigh in as protesters march on the nation’s capital and legal fights heat up…
Pelosi taking a risk in siding with liberals on infrastructure plan
One thing worth considering involving Democrats’ intra-party dispute over infrastructure is whether Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking a risk siding with liberals on doing the more sprawling…
U.S. Senate blueprint is lauded as potentially historic climate legislation
The $3.5 trillion budget framework the Senate narrowly passed early Wednesday sets the stage for a deluge of spending on electric vehicles, renewable power and clean energy initiatives meant to help combat climate change and wean the U.S. off fossil fuels…
As Washington wrestles with climate legislation, scientists warn that time is running out
Hundreds of scientists assembled this week by the United Nations rang the alarm bell as loudly as they ever have on climate change, detailing the intensifying fires, floods and other catastrophes that will continue to worsen until humans dramatically scale back greenhouse gas emissions…
VIDEO: UN Warns Code Red for Climate Change
‘A code-red for humanity.’ That’s the dire warning from a new United Nations report on climate change. CGTN’s Asieh Namdar spoke to Paul Bledsoe from American University’s Center for Environmental Policy about the report…
Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief
The world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases must produce clear plans to cut their carbon output drastically, the president of vital UN climate talks has urged, after scientists warned there was only a small chance of escaping the worst ravages of climate breakdown…
Window closing to stop worst effects of climate change
World leaders are rapidly running out of time to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. And without dramatic action, even less ambitious goals — such as checking climate change at 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — soon could be out of reach…
Get a grip: government censured for gaffe after gaffe in run-up to Cop26
Alok Sharma stepped off the plane from Brazil on Friday, the latest stop in a punishing travel schedule that has taken him to 30 countries in seven months, and into the eye of a media storm…
Reduce methane or face climate catastrophe, scientists warn
Cutting carbon dioxide is not enough to solve the climate crisis – the world must act swiftly on another powerful greenhouse gas, methane, to halt the rise in global temperatures, experts have warned…
Can Biden’s energy plans withstand the heat of his own party?
Joe Biden entered office with sweeping promises to overhaul America’s energy landscape even though the politics of doing so were never going to be simple. Much has been made of the bipartisan infrastructure bill set to be passed by the Senate in the coming days…
Biden strikes EV deal with carmakers, offers carbon rule
President Biden is set to announce twin policies today aimed at slashing car emissions and accelerating widespread electric vehicle adoption in an effort to tackle climate change and out-compete Chinese manufacturers, according to senior administration officials…
Radio: Infrastructure bill carries funding potential for clean energy
The infrastructure bill that cleared a Senate hurdle last week included some big spending for clean energy, like electric buses, hydrogen power, and charging stations for electric vehicles. However, some clean energy sectors want more…
The climate measures in the bipartisan infrastructure deal
The Senate voted yesterday to advance a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package ($550 billion in new spending) after weeks of stalled efforts to reach a bipartisan deal, with 17 Republicans supporting the agreement…
Letter: Autocratic states are thwarting climate action
Leslie Hook’s insightful story on G20 climate action (July 26) noted that autocratic regimes in China, Russia and Saudi Arabia deliberately prevented a decision to end fossil fuel subsidies…
EV sales have doubled. Is a ‘tidal wave’ coming?
Electric vehicle sales are booming in the U.S., with purchases nearly doubling over a year ago. That trend is chipping away at the long-held narrative that drivers aren’t ready for electric cars, and…
China needs to cut coal at home too for world to reach Paris climate goal
China made a big splash at the United Nations General Assembly, with President Xi Jinping announcing the country would stop building new coal plants abroad, which, if fulfilled, would cut off all international public support for…
Questions surround China’s commitment to scrap building coal plants overseas
\China made a big splash at yesterday’s U.N. General Assembly, with President Xi Jinping announcing the country will stop building new coal plants abroad, which, if fulfilled, would cut off all international public support…
As they gather at U.N., world leaders face furious push to act quickly on climate change
As world leaders gather at the United Nations this week, they face no shortage of diverse issues: An ongoing global pandemic, economic strife on numerous continents, and conflict and human rights concerns from Afghanistan to Haiti…
Biden implores world leaders to take action on climate change: ‘We don’t have a lot of time.’
President Biden on Friday announced that the United States and Europe have pledged to work to cut global methane emissions by a third in the coming decade and urged other nations to join their effort to…
As the largest-ever U.S. climate bill inches forward, a lobbying frenzy ensues
The prospect of a $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending bill has sparked a lobbying frenzy in Congress, as lawmakers zero in this week on a measure that could reshape the nation’s energy system…
US and EU pledge 30% cut in methane emissions to limit global heating
The US and the EU made a joint pledge on Friday to cut global methane emissions by almost a third in the next decade, in what climate experts hailed as one of the most significant steps yet towards fulfilling the Paris climate agreement…
What about the climate
The climate crisis , as well as vaccinations, and even the globalization of the earth, have their negatives. Such issues are primarily scientific and can only be addressed with scientific arguments…
US and EU plan agreement to curb methane pollution
The US and EU plan on Friday to commit to cutting methane pollution by 30 per cent over the next decade and are lobbying other large emitters of the potent greenhouse gas to join the effort…
Automakers blast EV tax credit over union provision
Major auto companies are pushing back against an expansive clean energy tax bill that they say punishes manufacturers whose workers are not unionized. The bill, which the House Ways and Means Committee plans to take up tomorrow…
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