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Canada and Mexico pose obstacle to Biden’s union-built electric vehicle plans
President Joe Biden has a difficult task today handling opposition from Canada and Mexico, America’s two largest trading partners, to his push to promote U.S. manufacturing of electric vehicles…
Can America prevent a global warming cold war?
At the 11th hour of climate negotiations in Scotland last week, the U.S. and China released a “Joint Glasgow Declaration on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s” outlining increased cooperation on a wide range of climate and clean energy topics…
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…
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…
Climate change: Biden’s next big political gamble?
After a string of setbacks on getting his priorities through the deeply divided US Congress, President Joe Biden may set his sights on climate change in a bid to save the planet — and his imperiled legacy…
GOP, eyeing Hill takeover, mulls energy and climate agenda
It may seem early, but Republicans are already plotting out a climate and energy agenda should they win control of Capitol Hill come 2023. But whether a Republican-controlled Congress would work with President Biden on those issues is another matter altogether…
To boost economy and midterm outlook, Democrats must pass clean energy bill
Congressional Democrats are getting restless, and who can blame them. Despite a major infrastructure legislation becoming law last November, the Biden administration’s economic agenda…
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